Kuno Fischer

Kuno Fischer
Born(1824-07-23)23 July 1824
Sandewalde (near Guhrau), German Confederation
Died5 July 1907(1907-07-05) (aged 82)
EducationUniversity of Leipzig
University of Halle (PhD, 1847)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolHegelianism (early)[1]
Neo-Kantianism (late)[2]
InstitutionsHeidelberg University
University of Jena
ThesisDe Parmenide Platonico (On Plato's Parmenides) (1847)
Academic advisorsChristian Hermann Weisse (Leipzig), Johann Eduard Erdmann (Halle), Julius Schaller (Halle)
Notable studentsRichard Falckenberg [de]
Main interests
Metaphysics
Notable ideas
The empiricismrationalism distinction
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Portrait of Fischer by
Caspar Ritter (1898)

Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer (23 July 1824 – 5 July 1907) was a German philosopher, a historian of philosophy and a critic.

  1. ^ Theodore M. Porter, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 63: Kuno Fischer's early Hegelianism had got him into political trouble in 1848. In 1852 he was accused of pantheism..."
  2. ^ Frederick C. Beiser, The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796-1880, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 221.
  3. ^ Frederick C. Beiser, The German Historicist Tradition, Oxford UP, 2011, p. 370.