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wilhelm windelband , prior to 1905 october 22 , 1915 october 22 , 1915 heidelberg , grand duchy of baden , germany max weber , ernst troeltsch , albert schweitzer 19th-century philosophy potsdam , brandenburg , prussia neo-kantianism immanuel friedrich herbart , hermann lotze kant , georg wilhelm friedrich hegel , johann 200px metaphysics , mathematics the nomothetic -- idiographic distinction may 11 , 1848 may 11 , 1848 wilhelm windelband.jpg wilhelm windelband
 wilhelm windelband western philosophy
wilhelm windelband

wilhelm windelband -lrb- may 11 , 1848 -- october 22 , 1915 -rrb- was a german philosopher of the baden school .
windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms `` nomothetic '' and `` idiographic '' , which he introduced .
these have currency in psychology and other areas , though not necessarily in line with his original meanings .
windelband was a neo-kantian who protested other neo-kantians of his time and maintained that `` to understand kant rightly means to go beyond him '' .
against his positivist contemporaries , windelband argued that philosophy should engage in humanistic dialogue with the natural sciences rather than uncritically appropriating its methodologies .
his interests in psychology and cultural sciences represented an opposition to psychologism and historicism schools by a critical philosophic system .
windelband relied in his effort to reach beyond kant on such philosophers as georg wilhelm friedrich hegel , johann friedrich herbart and hermann lotze .
closely associated with windelband was heinrich rickert .
windelband 's disciples were not only noted philosophers , but sociologists like max weber and theologians like ernst troeltsch and albert schweitzer .
