SOURCE: “The Epistemology of Ed. V. Hartmann,” in Mind, Vol. 18, No. 5, January, 1893, pp. 188-207.

In the following essay, Caldwell presents an overview of Hartmann's epistemology.

In a former paper¹ I sought to study the consequences of Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's Epistemology. The most important of them, I think, are: the rejection of the doctrine of Subjective Idealism both as regards the form and the matter of knowledge, and the rejection of the thing-in-itself as anything save a conception of the mind. This paper will seek to clear the ground a little further in the same direction by considering the Epistemological problem as seen under the forms of the hypotheses of Realism and Idealism. In particular, I shall seek to consider the statement Hartmann gives of the problem of Epistemology and his treatment of the various solutions which he holds can be given of it. His theory is at...