Erich Adickes

Background

Erich Adickes was born on June 26, 1866, in Lesum, Germany.

Education

Erich Adickes studied at the University of Tübingen. He also attended Humboldt University of Berlin where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1887.

Career

Erich Adickes started his career as a professor at the University of Kiel in 1895. He left this post in 1902 and became a professor at the University of Münster. In 1904, Adickes succeeded Christoph von Sigwart and took up a post of a professor at the University of Tübingen where he worked until 1928.

Erich Adickes wrote his first book Kant contra Haeckel in 1901. Later he wrote such books as Kant und die Als-Ob-Philosophie, Kant und das Ding an sich and Kants Opus postumum dargestellt und beurteilt. His last book Kants Lehre von der doppelten Affektion unseres Ichs als Schlüssel zu seiner Erkenntnistheorie was published in 1929.

Achievements

• Erich Adickes was a German educator, philosopher, and writer who was famous for his books devoted to Kantian philosophy. His most famous book is Kant und die Als-Ob-Philosophie. He is known for introducing, in 1907, his concept of Four World-Views.

Works

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  • Kant Contra Haeckel: Erkenntnistheorie gegen Naturwissenschaftlichen Dogmatismus

    (German edition)

    1901
  • Kant und die Als-Ob-Philosophie

    (German edition)

    1927

Views

In his many articles and books, Adickes proved himself to be an independent follower of Kant. He was also vehemently opposed to Hans Vaihinger's philosophy of the 'As If ’. Adickes opposed the ideas of materialism, as well as the "monistic natural philosophy", and argued that the material does not exist objectively, that this is a "question of our mind", "state of consciousness." He denied the possibility of scientific knowledge of the objective world.

References

• Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers This Biographical Dictionary provides detailed accounts of the lives, works, influence and reception of thinkers from all the major philosophical schools and traditions of the twentieth-century. This unique volume covers the lives and careers of thinkers from all areas of philosophy - from analytic philosophy to Zen and from formal logic to aesthetics.
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