Benno Erdmann

Benno Erdmann (; 30 May 1851 – 7 January 1921) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher, logician, psychologist and scholar of Immanuel Kant.

Biography Erdmann received his Ph.D. in 1873 from the University of Berlin with a dissertation on Kant. The title of his thesis was Die Stellung des Dinges an sich in Kants Aesthetik und Analytik (The Position of the Thing in Itself in Kant's Aesthetic and Analytic). Hermann von Helmholtz proposed Erdmann's publication Die Axiome der Geometrie (The Axioms of Geometry, 1877) as the basis for a habilitation.

In 1878 he became an extraordinary professor at the University of Berlin, in 1879 a full professor at the University of Kiel, and in 1884 he went to the University of Breslau, in 1890 to the University of Halle, in 1898 to the University of Bonn and in 1909 he returned to Berlin.

He was the father of journalist Lothar Erdmann.

Works Martin Knutzen 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 (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

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