1st Edition
The Philosophy of Rudolph Hermann Lotze A Reassessment
Introduction
Part One: Lotze and Other Philosophers
1. Fries and Lotze, Michele Vagnetti
2. On Lotze’s Role in the Psychologismusstreit: Between Herbart and Beneke, Mario Ariel
González Porta
3. Green, Bradley, and Lotze, Giulio M. Cavalli
4. The Lotze–Ward Project: A Defense of Antinaturalism and Panpsychism, Arnauld
Dewalque
5. E. E. Constance Jones and Hermann Lotze, Karen Green
6. Lotze and James: A (Somewhat) Neglected Line of Influence on Pragmatism, Sebastian
Luft
7. Lotze and Brentano as Teachers of Metaphysics: Considerations Based on their Lectures
and Stumpf’s Application of their Phenomenology, Robin D. Rollinger
8. Lotze, Platonism, and Husserl’s Anti-psychologism, Mirja Hartimo
9. Lotze and Windelband, Jacinto Páez Bonifaci
10. Hermann Lotze’s Philosophy of Language and its Influence on Frege, Gottfried Gabriel
11. Lotze and Wittgenstein, Nikolay Milkov
Part Two: Topics of Lotze’s Systematic Philosophy
12. From the Medical Dissertation to the Lesser Metaphysics of the Young Lotze: How
Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Natural Sciences Permeate, Charlotte Morel
13. Lotze’s Ideenwelt, David Sullivan
14. Lotze on (Non)Existence and Reality, Dolf Rami
15. The Great Delusion: Lotze on the Role of Sensory Feeling in the Genesis of our Concept
of Externality, Mark Textor
16. Lotze’s Logik in the Light of Modern Developments in the Foundations of Mathematics,
Kai Hauser
17. Hermann Lotze’s Theory of Scientific Explanation: Sources and Reception, William R.
Woodward
Biography
Nikolay Milkov is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany. He is the author of seven books including Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition (2020), Hermann Lotze's Influence on Twentieth Century Philosophy (2023) and The Tractatus, Wittgenstein’s Method and Analytic Philosophy (2025).
Michele Vagnetti is a Research Associate at the University of Florence. He is the author of Hermann Lotze on the Mind-Body Problem and the 19th Century Philosophy and Psychology: With Special Attention to William James (doctoral dissertation, 2020).
“No one interested in the philosophy of Lotze should miss reading this definitive survey of his thought and intellectual legacy.”
Federico Boccaccini, University of Liege, Belgium
