Hans Vaihinger Philosopher

Hans Vaihinger (German: [hans ˈfaɪɪŋɐ]; September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of 'As if'), published in 1911 but written more than thirty years earlier.Vaihinger was born in Nehren, Württemberg, Germany, near Tübingen, and raised in what he himself described as a "very religious milieu". He was educated at Tübingen, Leipzig, and Berlin, became a tutor and later a philosophy professor at Strasbourg before moving to the university at Halle in 1884. From 1892, he was a full professor.

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Birth date	September 25, 1852
Birth place	Nehren Baden-Württemberg
Date of death	December 18, 1933
Place of death	Halle (Saale)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Idealism Positivism

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influenced	George Kelly (psychologist) Alfred Adler James Hillman
influenced by	Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche Immanuel Kant African Spir Jeremy Bentham Friedrich Karl Forberg
notable idea	Nominalism Instrumentalism Fictionalism
philosophical school	Neo-Kantianism