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Theodor Elsenhans

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Theodor Elsenhans (1862-1918) was a German psychologist and neo-Kantian philosopher.[1]

Life

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Elsenhans started studying theology at the University of Tübingen, but became interested in philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1885. In 1902 he completed his Habilitationsschrift at Heidelberg University, with a monograph on Kant and the post-Kantian Jakob Friedrich Fries. In 1908 he took up a professorship at Dresden University, where he continued to work on epistemology.[1]

Works

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  • Psychologie und Logik zur Einführung in die Philosophie: für Oberklassen höherer Schulen und zum Selbststudium[Psychology and logic as an introduction to philosophy: for upper secondary school classes and for self-study], 1890
  • Wesen und Entstehung des Gewissens: Eine Psychologie der Ethik [The nature and origin of conscience: a psyschology of ethics], 1894.
  • Das Kant-Friesische Problem [The Kant-Fries problem], 1902.
  • Lehrbuch der psychologie [Handbook of psychology], 1912

References

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  1. ^ a b Rodney Parker (2018). "Theodor Elsenhans". In Andrea Staiti; Evan Clarke (eds.). The Sources of Husserl's 'Ideas I'. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 13–15. ISBN 978-3-11-055159-4.