Branislav Petronijević
Branislav Petronijević | |
|---|---|
| Бранислав Петронијевић | |
| Born | 6 April 1875 |
| Died | 4 March 1954 (aged 78) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna University of Leipzig |
| Thesis | Der Satz vom Grunde, eine logische Untersuchung (The Principle of Reason, a Logical Investigation) (1898) |
| Academic advisors | Johannes Volkelt |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Yugoslav philosophy Objective idealism |
| Institutions | University of Belgrade Serbian Royal Academy |
| Notable students | Ksenija Atanasijević |
| Main interests | |
| Notable ideas | Monopluralism Empirio-rationalist epistemology Hypermetaphysics |
Branislav "Brana" Petronijević (sometimes styled as Petronievics) (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав "Брана" Петронијевић; 6 April 1875 – 4 March 1954) was a Serbian philosopher and paleontologist.
His major work is the two-volume Prinzipien der Metaphysik (Principles of Metaphysics, Heidelberg, 1904–1911), in which he outlines his original metaphysical system – a synthesis of Baruch Spinoza's monism and Gottfried Leibniz's monadological pluralism into what he called "monopluralism". Influenced by George Berkeley and G.W.F. Hegel, Petronijević held that our immediate experience is the source of basic logical and metaphysical axioms – what he called "empirio-rationalist" epistemology.
In the field of palaeontology, Petronijević was the first to distinguish between the genera Archaeopteryx and Archaeornis. However, most of his taxonomic interpretations were later abandoned. He also discovered new characteristics of the genera Tritylodon and Moeritherium.