Les origines de la philosophie du comme si

Abstract

Today Vaihinger’s philosophy of “as if” enjoys wide interest as part of the renaissance of fictionalism. We have translated Vaihinger’s article “Wie die Philosophie des Als Ob entstand” which appeared in Die deutsche Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Raymund Schmidt (ed.), Leipzig, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1921, vol. 2, 1–29. This autobiographical article traces the intellectual development of Vaihinger, whose major inspiration was the philosophy of Kant.