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Wilhelm Windelband (May 11 1848 – October 22 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School.Windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms nomothetic and idiographic which he introduced. These have currency in psychology and other areas though not necessarily in line with his original meanings. Windelband was a neo-Kantian who protested other neo-Kantians of his time and maintained that to understand Kant rightly means to go beyond him.

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birth date
1848-05-11
birth place
Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Brandenburg
death date
1915-10-22
death place
German Empire, Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden
era
19th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118633635
influenced
Albert Schweitzer, Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Hermann Lotze, Johann Friedrich Herbart
main interest
Mathematics, Metaphysics
notableIdea
Nomothetic
philosophicalSchool
Neo-Kantianism

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