Wilhelm Windelband | |
|---|---|
 Wilhelm Windelband, prior to 1905 | |
| Born | 11 May 1848 |
| Died | 22 October 1915 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | University of Jena University of Berlin University of Göttingen (Dr. phil., 1870) |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Neo-Kantianism (Baden School) Foundationalism[1] |
| Thesis | Die Lehren vom Zufall (The Theories of Chance) (1870) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Lotze |
| Doctoral students | Heinrich Rickert |
Main interests | Metaphysics, philosophical logic |
Notable ideas | The nomothetic–idiographic distinction |
Wilhelm Windelband (/ˈvɪndəlbænd/; German: [ˈvɪndl̩bant]; 11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School.
- ^ Windelband defended foundationalism in his book Über die Gewißheit der Erkenntniss. (1873)—see Frederick C. Beiser (2014), The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796–1880 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 517.