Wilhelm Schuppe
Ernst Julius Wilhelm Schuppe was a German positivist philosopher, born in Brieg, Silesia. He advocated what he called 'immanent philosophy'.
Life
In 1860 Schuppe received his doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Berlin with a thesis on Ciceronian rhetoric. From 1861 he was a school teacher in Berlin, Breslau, Neisse, Gliwice and Bytom. In 1873 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Greifswald, becoming university rector in 1884. He died in Breslau.
Thought
Schuppe is known for promoting a concept of conscious immanence, an idea in which the subject and object form a unity. His philosophy of immanence, or ego, was to be regarded with certainty and to be used as a starting point for epistemology.
Written works
Das menschliche Denken,, 1870 Erkenntnistheoretische Logik, 1878Grundzuge der Ethik und Rechtsphilosophie, 1882Das metaphys. Motiv und die Geschichte der Philosophie im Umrisse, 1882 Der Begriff des subjektiven Rechts, 1887Das Gewohnheitsrecht, 1890 Das Recht des Besitzes, 1891. Grundriß der Erkenntnistheorie und Logik 1894Begriff und Grenzen der Psychologie, 1896Die immanente Philosophie, 1897 Der Solipsismus, 1898Das System der Wissenschaften und das des Seienden, 1898 Psychologismus und Normcharakter der Logik, 1901Was ist Bildung? 1900Der Zusammenhang von Leib und Seele. 1902.