The Brentano Puzzle

by Poli,Roberto; Poli,Roberto

• ISBN13: 9781840143713
• ISBN10: 1840143711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Even if the width and the depth of Brentano's intellectual legacy are now quite well known, those asked to list the principal philosophers of the 19th century, very rarely do mention his name. We may call this puzzle the problem of Brentano's 'invisibility'.One component of the Brentano's puzzle is that a number of Brentano's outstanding pupils achieved their own success and founded their own schools. Suffice to mention Husserl's phenomenology, Twardowski's Lvov-Warsaw school and Meinong's Graz school. The personal success and academic recognition attained by these exponents of Brentano's school (in the broad sense) have come to obscure their common origins.The oblivion into which Franz Brentano's thought fell was in part due also to the subsequent split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology.The book reconstructs elements of the 'map' of the Brentanists, revitalizing knowledge of the theoretical complexity of their debates, of their unitariness, and of their style. Last but not least, analyses of the relevance of those discussions for contemporary philosophical and scientific debate are also considered.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
The Brentano Puzzle: An Introduction	1	(14)
Roberto Poli
Who Needs Brentano? The Wasteland of Philosophy without its Past	15	(30)
Dallas Willard
Introduction to Paul Linke's Gottlob Frege as Philosopher'	45	(4)
Claire Ortiz Hill
Gottlob Frege as Philosopher	49	(24)
Paul F. Linke
Franz Brentano and the University of Vienna Philosophical Society 1888-1938	73	(20)
John Blackmore
On Agents and Objects: Some Remarks on Brentanian Perception	93	(20)
Alf Zimmer
Perceptual Saliences and Nuclei of Meaning	113	(26)
Liliana Albertazzi
Brentano and the Thinkable	139	(12)
Jan Srzednicki
From Empirical Psychology to Phenomenology Edmund Husserl on the `Brentano Puzzle'	151	(18)
Claire Ortiz Hill
Brentano and Boltzmann: The Schubladenexperiment	169	(10)
Serena Cattaruzza
Johannes Daubert's Theory of Judgement	179	(20)
Karl Schuhmann
On Alexius Meinong's Theory of Signs	199	(16)
Evelyn Dolling
Linguistic Expressions and Acts of Meaning: Comments on Marty's Philosophy of Language	215
Robin Rollinger