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Richard Heinrich Ludwig Avenarius (November 19 1843 – August 18 1896) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He formulated the radical positivist doctrine of empirical criticism or empirio-criticism. Avenarius attended the Nicolaischule in Leipzig and studied in Zurich Berlin and Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig he received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1868 with his thesis on Baruch Spinoza and his pantheism obtained the habilitation in 1876 and taught as Privatdozent.

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birth date
1843-11-19
birth place
Paris
death date
1896-08-18
death place
Zürich
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Anatoly Lunacharsky, Alexander Bogdanov, Ernst Mach, William James
influenced by
David Hume, Immanuel Kant
main interest
Empirical evidence, Philosophy of science
philosophicalSchool
Ernst Mach
region
Western philosophy

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