Alexander Pfänder
German philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Pfänder was a German philosopher who was a member of the Munich phenomenological school. Biography Pfänder was born in Iserlohn and spent his entire academic career in Munich, where he was a student of Theodor Lipps and one of the founding members of the Munich circle of phenomenologists. As a professor Pfänder was also influential in conveying and promoting a version of phenomenology that differed from Edmund Husserl's "transcendental" orientation. His early phenomenological analysis of willinging in fact predated Husserl's breakthrough in phenomenology . In spite of his talents as a writer and a teacher, Pfänder did not come into prominence as did Heidegger with Being and Time and has consequently been overshadowed by subsequent developments out of Heideggerian and Husserlian orientations. Nevertheless, his detailed analyses of various phenomena, such as willing and attitudes , have been undeservedly ignored. Moreover, his development of the concept of an "understanding psychology" also merits attention, which has not received its due to its treatment in a work with an unfashionable title .
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