The Brentano Puzzle

This text is based on a conference aimed at solving the following puzzle: even if the width and the depth of Brentano's intellectual legacy are quite well known, those asked to list great philosophers of the 19th century rarely mention his name. This is the puzzle of his so called "invisibility".

List of contents

Contents: The Brentano Puzzle: an introduction; Who needs Brentano? the wasteland of philosophy without its past; Introduction to Paul Linke’s Gottlob Frege as Philosopher; Gottlob Frege as philosopher; Franz Brentano and the University of Vienna Philosophical Society 1888-1938; On agents and objects. Some remarks on Brentanian perception; Perceptual saliences and nuclei of meaning; Brentano and the thinkable; From empirical psychology to phenomenology. Edmund Husserl on the Brentano Puzzle; Brentano and Boltzmann: the Schubladenexperiment; Johannes Daubert’s Theory of Judgement; On Alexius Meinong’s Theory of Signs; Linguistic expressions and acts of meaning: comments on Marty’s Philosophy of Language.

About the author

Roberto Poli

Summary

This book reconstructs Brentano’s and his pupils’ main achievements, revitalizing knowledge of their analyses, debates and style. The relevance of those discussions for contemporary philosophical debate are also considered.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr. Roberto Poli (Editor), Roberto Poli (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781840143713
• ISBN: 978-1-84014-371-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Western Philosophy; Western Philosophy Series; Western Philosophy Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy