Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey
	Dilthey, c. 1855
Born	19 November 1833; Wiesbaden-Biebrich, German Confederation
Died	1 October 1911 (aged 77); Seis am Schlern, Austria-Hungary (now Italy)
Education	Heidelberg University; University of Berlin; (PhD, January 1864; Dr. phil. hab., June 1864)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Hermeneutics; Epistemological hermeneutics; Historism; Lebensphilosophie
Institutions	University of Berlin (1865–66; 1882–1911); University of Basel (1867); University of Kiel (1868–1870); University of Breslau (1870–1882)
Theses	De principiis ethices Schleiermacheri (On the principles of Schleiermacher's ethics) (January 1864); Versuch einer Analyse des moralischen Bewußtseins (An Attempt to Analyze Moral Consciousness) (June 1864);
Academic advisors	Franz Bopp; August Boeckh; Jacob Grimm; Theodor Mommsen; Leopold von Ranke; Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Doctoral students	Max Dessoir, Leo Baeck, Georg Misch, Eduard Spranger
Main interests	Verstehen, literary theory, literary criticism, intellectual history, human sciences, hermeneutic circle, Geistesgeschichte, facticity
Notable ideas	General hermeneutics,; distinction between explanatory and descriptive sciences,; distinction between explanatory and descriptive psychology,; typology of the three basic Weltanschauungen

Wilhelm Dilthey (/ˈdɪltaɪ/; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈdɪltaɪ];^[6] 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. 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,^[7] 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.

^ Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Kathleen L. Slaney (eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Sciences, Wiley Blackwell, p. 56.
^ Peter Koslowski (ed.), The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism, Springer, 2006, p. 4.
^ Scott Campbell, Paul W. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Wilhelm Dilthey, Selected Works, Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 28.
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^ Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 446, 1055. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.
^ Hans Peter Rickman, Wilhelm Dilthey, Pioneer of the Human Studies, University of California Press, 1979, p. 53.

[1] Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Kathleen L. Slaney (eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Sciences, Wiley Blackwell, p. 56.

[2] Peter Koslowski (ed.), The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism, Springer, 2006, p. 4.

[3] Scott Campbell, Paul W. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 8.

[:0-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Wilhelm Dilthey, Selected Works, Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 28.

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[6] Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 446, 1055. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.

[7] Hans Peter Rickman, Wilhelm Dilthey, Pioneer of the Human Studies, University of California Press, 1979, p. 53.

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Wilhelm Dilthey
Dilthey, c. 1855
Born	(1833-11-19)19 November 1833 Wiesbaden-Biebrich, German Confederation
Died	1 October 1911(1911-10-01) (aged 77) Seis am Schlern, Austria-Hungary (now Italy)
Education	Heidelberg University University of Berlin (PhD, January 1864; Dr. phil. hab., June 1864)

Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Hermeneutics Epistemological hermeneutics^[1] Historism^[2] Lebensphilosophie^[3]
Institutions	University of Berlin (1865–66; 1882–1911) University of Basel (1867) University of Kiel (1868–1870) University of Breslau (1870–1882)
Theses	De principiis ethices Schleiermacheri (On the principles of Schleiermacher's ethics) (January 1864) Versuch einer Analyse des moralischen Bewußtseins (An Attempt to Analyze Moral Consciousness) (June 1864)
Academic advisors	Franz Bopp^[4] August Boeckh^[4] Jacob Grimm^[4] Theodor Mommsen^[4] Leopold von Ranke^[4] Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg^[4]
Doctoral students	Max Dessoir, Leo Baeck, Georg Misch, Eduard Spranger
Main interests	Verstehen, literary theory, literary criticism, intellectual history, human sciences, hermeneutic circle, Geistesgeschichte, facticity
Notable ideas	General hermeneutics, distinction between explanatory and descriptive sciences, distinction between explanatory and descriptive psychology,^[5] typology of the three basic Weltanschauungen