Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and
hermeneutic philosopher, who held
G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the
University of Berlin. As a
polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of
scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an
empiricist, in contrast to the
idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from
British empiricism and
positivism in its central
epistemological and
ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
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