Alexander Pfänder

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Alexander Pfänder (born February 7, 1870 in Iserlohn ; † March 18, 1941 in Munich ) was a German philosopher and is assigned to realistic phenomenology . According to his teaching, the psychic is connected with the physical through interactions.

Teaching

Alexander Pfänder was a student of Theodor Lipps . With a dissertation on the consciousness of volition , he received his doctorate in 1898 at the University of Munich . The work was published in the journal for psychology and physiology of the sensory organs . In 1900 he completed his habilitation with the work Phenomenology of Will . He taught at the University of Munich from 1901, from 1908 as associate professor, from 1930 until his retirement in 1935 as full professor. He dedicated his logic from 1921 to Edmund Husserl for his 60th birthday.

At the urging of Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist philosopher Hans Grunsky became his successor in his Munich chair .

The theologian Wolfgang Trillhaas published Pfander's philosophy of life goals from the estate in 1948 and contributed an afterword in which he paid tribute to Pfander's thinking.

On the occasion of Pfänder's 100th birthday, an international congress was held in Munich under the title The Munich Phenomenology . The President of the Organizing Committee was Helmut Kuhn .

See also

Works

  • Phenomenology of Will , 1900
  • Introduction to Psychology , 1904
  • On the psychology of convictions, in: Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Halle (Max Niemeyer), Volume I (1913) and Volume III (1916).
  • Logic, in: Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Halle (Max Niemeyer), Volume IV (1921).
  • The soul of man , 1933

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 78 (1971) 234f.
personal data
SURNAME Pfänder, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1941
Place of death Munich