The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics Austrian Philosophy 1874-1918

by Textor, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780198769828
• ISBN10: 0198769822
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-11-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mark Textor, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London

Mark Textor is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He previously taught in Bern, Hamburg, Munich, and Zurich. His main areas of research are history of analytic philosophy (especially Frege), philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind both from a historical (Brentano, Stumpf) and a
systematic perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
The Players
Introduction
Part I: The Evaporation of the Soul- and other Substances
1. Psychology, the Science of the Soul
2. 'Psychology without a Soul'
3. From Substance and Accident to Complex and Element
Part II: Managing without the Soul: Intentionality, Dualism, and Neutral Monism
4. The Mental and the Physical, Only A Matter of Perspective?
5. The Mental and the Physical, an Intrinsic Distinction
6. The Intentionality Challenge
Part III: From Psychology without a Soul to Psychology with a Self and Beyond: The Anglo-Austro-German Axis 1886-1921
Introduction to Part III: 'Shocked and Disappointed'
7. Cambridge Psychology between Lotze and Brentano
8. The Rise and Fall of the Subject: A Case Study
9. Act/Content/Object, Act/Object, or Just Object?
Part IV: Intuition, Metaphysics and the Limits of Knowledge
Introduction to Part IV
10. Brentano's One-Term View of Judgement
11. Judgement in the Service of the Will - Voluntaristic Conceptions of Judgement
12. The Nature of Knowledge: Avenarius and Schlick
13. Drawing the Limits of Knowledge
14. Beyond the Limits of Knowledge