Nicolai Hartmann

Nicolai Hartmann
Born19 February [O.S. 7] 1882
Riga, Livonia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died9 October 1950(1950-10-09) (aged 68)
Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Alma materUniversity of Yuryev
Saint Petersburg Imperial University
University of Marburg
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Neo-Kantianism (early)
Realist phenomenology (late)
Critical realism (late)
Academic advisorsHermann Cohen
Paul Natorp
Doctoral studentsCarl Gustav Hempel
Main interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics
Notable ideas
Strata of Being (Seinsschichten),[1] new ontology (neue Ontologie),[2] categorial novum
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Paul Nicolai Hartmann (German: [ˈhaʁtman]; 20 February 1882 – 9 October 1950) was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism[3] and as one of the most important twentieth-century metaphysicians.

  1. ^ Agazzi Evandro, Montecucco Luisa (eds.), Complexity And Emergence, World Scientific, 2002, p. 189.
  2. ^ Nicolai Hartmann, Studien zur Neuen Ontologie und Anthropologie, Walter de Gruyter, 2014, p. 265.
  3. ^ Herbert Schnädelbach, Philosophy in Germany 1831–1933, Cambridge UP, 1984, p. 209.