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Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851, Guhrau – 7 January 1921, Berlin) 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. Hermann von Helmholtz proposed Erdmann's publication Die Axiome der Geometrie (1877) as the basis for a habilitation. In 1878 he became an associate 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
External links
Works by or about Benno Erdmann at the Internet Archive