JOHANN GEORG HEINRICH FEDER

'Johann Georg Heinrich Feder' (May 15, 1740 in Schornweißach – February 22, 1821 in Hanover) was a German philosopher.
Feder studied theology and pedagogy at Erlangen. From 1768 to 1782 he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. At the time of his death he was Director of the Pageninstitut.
His writings were widely read at the time due to their clear and tasteful mode of presentation. Feder decisively countered Kant's idealism. He gained notoriety through his abbreviation of Christian Garve's review of Kant's ''Critique of Pure Reason''. As philosopher Feder belonged to the better representatives of the eclectics tending towards the Leibniz-Wolff School.

Contents

Works

Works

★ ''Grundriß der philosophischen Wissenschaften'', 2nd ed., Koblenz, 1769

★ ''Untersuchungen über den menschlichen Willen'', 2nd ed., Lemgo, 1785-92, 4 vols.

★ ''Über Raum und Kausalität'', 1787

★ ''Feders Leben, Natur und Grundsätze'', Leipzig, 1825 (Feder's autobiography, edited by his son Karl August Ludwig)