Benno Erdmann (; 30 May 1851 – 7 January 1921) was a German

neo-Kantian In late modern philosophy, neo-Kantianism () was a revival of the 18th-century philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The neo-Kantians sought to develop and clarify Kant's theories, particularly his concept of the thing-in-itself and his moral philosophy ...

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure of arg ...

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

and scholar of

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...

Biography

Erdmann received his Ph.D. in 1873 from the

University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

with a dissertation on Kant. The title of his thesis was ''Die Stellung des Dinges an sich in Kants Aesthetik und Analytik''.

Hermann von Helmholtz Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (; ; 31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894; "von" since 1883) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The ...

proposed Erdmann's publication ''Die Axiome der Geometrie'' (1877) as the basis for a

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. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the University of Berlin, in 1879 a full professor at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

, and in 1884 he went to the

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, in 1890 to the

University of Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

, in 1898 to the

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and in 1909 he returned to Berlin. He was the father of journalist Lothar Erdmann.

Works

* ''

Martin Knutzen Martin Knutzen (; 14 December 1713 – 29 January 1751) was a German philosopher, a follower of Christian Wolff and teacher of Immanuel Kant, to whom he introduced the physics of Isaac Newton. Biography Martin Knutzen was born in Königsberg ( ...

und seine Zeit''. 1876 * ''Die Axiome der Geometrie, eine philosophische Untersuchung der Riemann-Helmholtz'schen Raumtheorie''. 1877 *''Kant's Kriticismus in der ersten und in der zweiten Auflage der Kritik der reinen Vernunft''. 1878 * ''Logik. Bd. 1. Logische Elementarlehre''. 1892 (review by Bernard Bosanquet in ''

Mind The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...

'' (1892), N.S. No. 2) * ''Abhandlungen zur Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte''. 1893 * ''Psychologische Untersuchungen über das Lesen auf experimenteller Grundlage''. 1898 * ''Die Psychologie des Kindes, und die Schule''. 1901 * ''Historische Untersuchungen über Kants Prolegomena''. 1904 * ''Über Inhalt und Geltung des Kausalgesetzes''. 1905 * ''Umrisse zur Psychologie des Denkens''. 1908 * ''Über den modernen Monismus''. 1914

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Erdmann, Benno German logicians German psychologists 19th-century German philosophers 20th-century German philosophers 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 1851 births 1921 deaths People from Góra People from the Province of Silesia