Wilhelm Windelband (; ; 11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School. Biography Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official in Potsdam. He studied at Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen. Philosophical work 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 argued against other contemporary neo-Kantians, maintaining 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. Bibliography The following works by Windelband are available in English translations: Books History of Philosophy (1893) (two volumes) reprinted 1901, 1938 and 1979 by Macmillan History of Ancient Philosophy (1899) An Introduction to Philosophy (1895) Theories in Logic (1912) Articles "History and Natural Science" (J. T. Lamiell, transl.). Theory and Psychology'' 8, 1998, 6–22. See also Heinz Heimsoeth References Further reading External links A History of Philosophy—With especial reference to the formation and development of its problems and conceptions (1901) on archive.org An Introduction to Philosophy on archive.org 1848 births 1915 deaths 19th-century essayists 19th-century German philosophers 20th-century essayists 20th-century German philosophers Christian philosophers Epistemologists German logicians German Lutherans German male essayists German male non-fiction writers Historians of philosophy Kantian philosophers Metaphysicians Ontologists People from Potsdam People from the Province of Brandenburg Philosophers of logic Philosophers of psychology Philosophers of science