Background
Schubert-Soldern, Richard von was born in 1852 in Prague.
Schubert-Soldern, Richard von was born in 1852 in Prague.
Professor of Philosophy and Privatdozent in Leipzig, and later at the Gymnasium in Görz.
Schubert-Soldem was effectively a follower of Schuppe, to whom he owed an extensive debt and whose philosophy of immanence he largely adopted, adding to it some ideas from the ‘philosophy of pure experience’ or empiriocriti-cism of Avenarius. Existence is predicable only of the contents of consciousness, and no object may be characterized as existent except in so far as it is such a content. Further, consciousness itself is not an entity of a different class from its contents, but is identical with the conjunction of contents. This entails not that only T exist but rather that only my conscious contents exist. No contents can be properly interpreted as evidence for the existence of an external world. SchubertSoldem described this philosophy as 'gnoseological solipsism’.