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Jun 30, 2004 · Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique place in twentieth-century philosophy. His work pays equal attention to foundational and epistemological issues in the philosophy of mathematics and natural science and to aesthetics, the philosophy of history, and other issues in the “cultural sciences” broadly conceived.
- Schlick, Moritz
Schlick also contributed a critical essay on Ernst...
- Schlick, Moritz
Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. His most famous work is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929).
Ernst Cassirer (born July 28, 1874, Breslau, Silesia, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died April 13, 1945, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a German Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, remembered for his interpretation and analysis of cultural values.
A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Ernst Cassirer, the most prominent Neo-Kantian philosopher of the twentieth century. Learn about his philosophy of symbolic forms, his cultural anthropology, his histories of science and ideas, and his role in the Davos Conference.
Throughout his intellectual life Cassirer was a great historian of philosophy as well as of science, still remaining, however, a philosopher engaged in the systematic inquiry into the structure of both knowledge and human cultural forms.
Ernst Cassirer, a German philosopher active in the early part of this century, follows directly from the Kantian formalist tradition, but steps beyond to a new understanding of the basic structures of human knowledge.
Oct 2, 2023 · To commemorate the centenary of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms this essay focuses on how Cassirer in the development of a distinctive philosophical method analyzed the newest development within philosophy and science.
