Wilhelm Windelband

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name = Wilhelm Windelband

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birth_date =May 11, 1848
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death_date = October 22, 1915
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occupation = Philosopher
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nationality = German
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Wilhelm Windelband (W. Windelband) (May 11, 1848 – October 22, 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School.

Born in Potsdam, he is now mainly remembered for the terms "nomothetic" and "idiographic", which he introduced. These have currency in psychology and other areas, though not necessarily in line with his original meanings. Windelband was a neo-Kantian who protested other neo-Kantians of his time and maintained that "to understand Kant rightly means to go beyond him". Against his positivist contemporaries, Windelband argued that philosophy should engage in humanistic dialogue with the natural sciences rather than uncritically appropriating its methodologies. His interests in psychology and cultural sciences represented an opposition to psychologism and historicism schools by a critical philosophic system.

Windelband relied in his effort to reach beyond Kant on such philosophers as Hegel, Herbart and Lotze. Closely associated with Windelband was Heinrich Rickert. Windelband's disciples were not only noted philosophers, but sociologists like Max Weber and theologians like Ernst Troeltsch and Albert Schweitzer.

Bibliography

The following works by Windelband are available in English translations:

* "History Of Ancient Philosophy" (1899)
* "History of Philosophy (1901)" (two volumes)
* "An Introduction to Philosophy" (1895)"
* "Theories in Logic"

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* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:nP7yoemVNhwJ:bibliothek.bbaw.de/kataloge/literaturnachweise/windelba/literatur.pdf+%22Wilhelm+Windelband%22+1848&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=54&gl=us&ie=UTF-8 bibliothek]