Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosopher, Academic
1833 – 1911
Who was Wilhelm Dilthey?
Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1833
Biebrich - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Employment
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Wiesbaden
- Died
- Oct 1, 1911
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on July 23, 2013
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