The Philosophy of Rudolph Hermann Lotze by Milkov, Nikolay; Vagnetti, Michele;

Short description:

Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817‒1881) was a leading figure of late 19th-century German philosophy. This volume provides a comprehensive reassessment of Lotze’s thought and analyzes the many different aspects of his logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

Long description:

Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817‒1881) was a leading figure of late 19th-century German philosophy. This volume provides a comprehensive reassessment of Lotze's thought and analyzes the many different aspects of his logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

Lotze reconsidered the philosophy of German Idealism and initiated an objectivist turn that was instrumental in the development of leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, including analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and pragmatism. This volume seeks to demonstrate the importance of Lotze's thought to the history of philosophy. Part I addresses Lotze's influence on and relatedness to the thought of Franz Brentano, Thomas Hill Green, Francis Herbert Bradley, James Ward, Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones, William James, Edmund Husserl, Wilhelm Windelband, Gottlob Frege, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and to two philosophers who brought Lotze to his turn in philosophy, Jakob Friedrich Fries and Johann Friedrich Herbart. Part II focuses on the connection between metaphysics and epistemology in the early Lotze, on the problem of value in Lotze's “greater” Logik, on his explorations on the foundations of mathematics, on the relationship between thought and language, on human sentience, on the method of hypotheses in science, and on Lotze's logic of existence and existence-entailing concepts.

The Philosophy of Rudolph Hermann Lotze will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in the history of philosophy, particularly 19th-century German philosophy and the history of analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

“No one interested in the philosophy of Lotze should miss reading this definitive survey of his thought and intellectual legacy.”

Federico Boccaccini, University of Liege, Belgium

Table of Contents:

Introduction Nikolay Milkov and Michele Vagnetti  Part 1: Lotze and Other Philosophers  1. Fries and Lotze Michele Vagnetti  2. On Lotze’s Role in the Psychologismusstreit: Between Herbart and Beneke Mario Ariel González Porta  3. Green, Bradley, and Lotze Giulio M. Cavalli  4. The Lotze–Ward Project: A Defense of Antinaturalism and Panpsychism Arnauld Dewalque  5. E. E. Constance Jones and Hermann Lotze Karen Green  6. Lotze and James: A (Somewhat) Neglected Line of Influence on Pragmatism Sebastian Luft  7. Lotze and Brentano as Teachers of Metaphysics: Considerations Based on their Lectures and Stumpf’s Application of their Phenomenology Robin D. Rollinger  8. Lotze, Platonism, and Husserl’s Anti-psychologism Mirja Hartimo  9. Lotze and Windelband Jacinto Páez Bonifaci  10. Hermann Lotze’s Philosophy of Language and its Influence on Frege Gottfried Gabriel  11. Lotze and Wittgenstein Nikolay Milkov  Part 2: Topics of Lotze’s Systematic Philosophy  12. From the Medical Dissertation to the Lesser Metaphysics of the Young Lotze: How Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Natural Sciences Permeate Charlotte Morel  13. Lotze’s Ideenwelt David Sullivan  14. Lotze on (Non)Existence and Reality Dolf Rami  15. The Great Delusion: Lotze on the Role of Sensory Feeling in the Genesis of our Concept of Externality Mark Textor  16. Lotze’s Logik in the Light of Modern Developments in the Foundations of Mathematics Kai Hauser  17. Hermann Lotze’s Theory of Scientific Explanation: Sources and Reception William R. Woodward