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Austrian philosophy : the legacy of Franz Brentano

Title: Austrian philosophy : the legacy of Franz Brentano / Barry Smith.
Author: Smith, Barry, 1952-
Publication: Chicago : Open Court, ©1994.

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xii, 381 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

When Franz Brentano introduced the concept of intentionality into modern philosophy, he initiated a revolution in philosophical thinking whose effects are still being felt - not least in contemporary developments in the field of cognitive science. Barry Smith's Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano is the first extensive study of the philosophy of the Brentano school.
The Brentanian philosophy is oriented towards the problem of mental directedness, of how mind relates to objects. Thus in working out their 'theories of objects', the Brentanian philosophers - in contrast to Frege and his successors in the analytic movement - did not abandon psychological concerns in favor of an orientation towards language. Rather, their investigations in ontology proceeded always in tandem with work on the cognitive processes in which objects are experienced.
In thus spanning the gulf between psychology and ontology, the Brentano school gave rise to movements of thought such as phenomenology and Gestalt psychology (the term 'Gestalt' was introduced as a technical term of philosophy by Brentano's student Ehrenfels).
The Brentanists enjoyed close relations with Carl Menger and other early members of the Austrian school of economics and Austrian Philosophy contains a detailed study of the interconnections between their work on the general theory of value and subjective theories of value developed in the economic sphere.
Brentano's student Kasimir Twardowski initiated the rich tradition of scientifically and logically oriented philosophy in Poland, and the role of Brentanianism in Polish philosophy, and especially in the development of Lesniewski's mereology, is here for the first time subjected to extended historical treatment.
Another Brentano student, Carl Stumpf, was responsible for introducing into philosophy the technical term 'Sachverhalt' or 'state of affairs', and the associated doctrine of realism in logic, too, is shown to have been a special preserve of the Brentano movement on the continent of Europe.
In setting out the ways in which Brentanian philosophers crucially influenced the development of scientific philosophy in Central Europe around the turn of the century Barry Smith's ambitious new work provides a detailed survey of developments in Austrian philosophy in its classical period, from the 1870s to the Anschluss in 1938.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-362) and index.

Contents

1. Austrian Philosophy and the Brentano School -- 2. Franz Brentano I: On Mind and its Objects -- 3. Franz Brentano II: On Substance and Accident -- 4. Anton Marty: On Being and Truth -- 5. Alexius Meinong and Stephan Witasek: On Art and its Objects -- 6. Kasimir Twardowski: On Content and Object -- 7. Tadeusz Kotarbinski: On Things and Their Phases -- 8. Christian von Ehrenfels I: On the Theory of Gestalt -- 9. Christian von Ehrenfels II: On Value and Desire -- 10. Carl Menger: On Austrian Philosophy and Austrian Economics.

ISBN

081269256X
9780812692563
9780812693072
0812693078

LCCN

94022133

OCLC

ocm30666164
30666164
SCSB-2025028

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Princeton University Library