Hermann Lotze

Hermann Lotze
Hermann Lotze
Born	21 May 1817; Bautzen, Saxony
Died	1 July 1881 (aged 64); Berlin, Prussia
Alma mater	Leipzig University
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	German idealism; Neo-Kantianism
Institutions	Leipzig University; University of Göttingen
Theses	De futurae biologiae princibus philosophicis (On the Philosophical Principles of Future Biology) (1838); De summis continuorum (On the Sums of Continua) (1840);
Academic advisors	Ernst Heinrich Weber; Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann; Gustav Fechner; Christian Hermann Weisse
Doctoral students	Carl Stumpf; Anton Marty
Other notable students	James Ward; Josiah Royce
Main interests	Philosophical logic, metaphysics
Notable ideas	Teleological idealism (principle of teleomechanism); Regressive analysis; Metaphysics has for its parts ontology, cosmology, and phenomenology

Rudolf Hermann Lotze (/ˈlɔːtsə/; German: [ˈlɔtsə]; 21 May 1817 – 1 July 1881) was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws and relations, then developments in the universe could be explained as the functioning of a world mind. His medical studies were pioneering works in scientific psychology.

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