Hermann Lotze Philosopher

Rudolf Hermann Lotze (German: [ˈlɔtsə]; 21 May 1817 – 1 July 1881) was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was unusually well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws, relations and 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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Birth date	May 21, 1817
Birth place	Saxony , Kingdom of Saxony , Bautzen
Date of death	July 01, 1881
Place of death	Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , Prussia
Era	19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Metaphysics Logic

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influenced	Bertrand Russell Edmund Husserl Josiah Royce Gottlob Frege William James George Trumbull Ladd Thomas Hill Green Wilhelm Windelband Borden Parker Bowne
influenced by	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Jakob Friedrich Fries Gustav Fechner Johann Friedrich Herbart
philosophical school	Monism