Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

by Brentano, Franz Clemens; Kraus, Oskar; McAlister, Linda L.; Simons, Peter; Rancurello, Antos C.

• ISBN13: 9780415106610
• ISBN10: 0415106613
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Franz Brentano's classic studyPsychology from an Empirical Standpointwas the most important of Brentano's works to be published in his lifetime. Unlike the first English translation in 1974, this edition contains the text corresponding to Brentano's original 1874 edition. An introduction by Peter Simons places Brentano's work in the context of current philosophical thought. He is able to show how Brentano has emerged since the Seventies as a key figure in both contemporary European and Anglo-American traditions and crucial to any understanding the history of philosophy and psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Preface to the English Edition	p. xxiii
Foreword to the 1911 Edition	p. xxv
Foreword to the 1874 Edition	p. xxvii
Psychology as a Science	p. 1
The Concept and Purpose of Psychology	p. 3
Psychological Method with Special Reference to Its Experiential Basis	p. 28
Further Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. Induction of the Fundamental Laws of Psychology	p. 44
Further Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. the Inexact Character of Its Highest Laws. Deduction and Verification	p. 65
Mental Phenomena in General	p. 75
The Distinction Between Mental and Physical Phenomena	p. 77
	p. 101
Further Considerations Regarding Inner Consciousness	p. 138
On the Unity of Consciousness	p. 155
A Survey of the Principal Attempts to Classify Mental Phenomena	p. 177
Classification of Mental Activities into Presentations, Judgements, and Phenomena of Love and Hate	p. 194
Feeling and Will United into a Single Fundamental Class	p. 235
Comparison of the Three Basic Classes with the Threefold Phenomena of Inner Consciousness. Determination of Their Natural Order	p. 265
Additional Essays from Brentano's Nachlass Concerning Intuitions, Concepts, and Objects of Reason*	p. 309
Index	p. 409
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