Jakob Friedrich Fries

Jakob Friedrich Fries
Born23 August 1773 (1773-08-23)
Barby (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died10 August 1843 (1843-08-11) (aged 69)
Jena (present-day Thuringia, Germany)
Alma materUniversity of Leipzig
University of Jena
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPost-Kantianism[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Jena
Main interests
Metaphysics
Psychology
Philosophy of science[2]
Philosophical logic
Notable ideas
Empirical psychology as the basis of critical and transcendental philosophy
Fries's trilemma
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Jakob Friedrich Fries (German: [fʁiːs]; 23 August 1773 – 10 August 1843) was a German post-Kantian[1] philosopher and mathematician.

  1. ^ a b Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 199–212.
  2. ^ Helmut Pulte (2013), "J. F. Fries' Philosophy of Science, the New Friesian School and the Berlin Group: On Divergent Scientific Philosophies, Difficult Relations and Missed Opportunities", in: N. Milkov & V. Peckhaus (eds.), The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism. Springer, pp. 43–66.
  3. ^ William R. Woodward, Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 83.