Wolfgang Huemer

Università Degli Studi Di Parma
University of Parma
  • Università Degli Studi Di Parma
    Associate Professor
  • University of Parma
    Department of Philosophy
    Regular Faculty
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Graduate Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2000
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Aesthetics
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    Themes from Brentano (review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (2): 391-393. 2015.
    Franz Brentano’s impact on the philosophy of his time and on 20th-century philosophy is considerable. The “sharp dialectician” and “genial master” influenced philosophers of various allegiances, being acknowledged not only as the “grandfather of phenomenology” but also as an analytic philosopher “in the best sense of this term” . The fourteen new essays gathered together in this volume give an insight in three core issues of Brentano’s philosophy: consciousness , intentionality and ontology and …Read more
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    In his entire oeuvre Brentano defended a scientific conception of philosophy and advocated the adoption of a rigorous, scientific method. Given this background it might come as a surprise that in his reflections on aesthetics he firmly rejected the classic definition of aesthetics as the science of beauty. This must not be read as an expression of disinterest in – or a dismissal of – aesthetics, though. It is rather an expression of Brentano's view concerning the position of aesthetics in his ov…Read more
  •  11
    Value and Ontology (edited book)
    with B. Centi
    Ontos-Verlag. 2009.
    The articles in this volume discuss the relation between values and ontology, focusing on the significance of ontology for ethics and aesthetics, i.e., themes which due to the raising interest in ontology come to play a central role in contemporary philosophical debate. The contributors address the questions of whether and in which sense values can be considered to be real, whether it is possible to experience them, and in which sense we can speak about their objective validity. These topics whi…Read more
  • Roberto Poli, ed., The Brentano Puzzle (review)
    Philosophy in Review 20 206-209. 2000.
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    Husserl and Haugeland on constitution
    Synthese 137 (3): 345-368. 2003.
    Both Husserl and Haugeland develop an account of constitution to address the question of how our mental episodes can be about physical objects and thus, through the intentional relation, bridge the gap between the mental and the physical. The respective theories of the two philosophers of very different background show not only how mental episodes can have empirical content, but also how this content is shaped by past experiences or a holistic background of other mental episodes. In this article…Read more
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    Die Entwicklung von Brentanos Theorie des Zeitbewußtseins
    Brentano Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 10 193-220. 2002/03.
    Brentano hat das Zeit-Problem in verschiedenen Phasen seiner Philosophie aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu lösen gesucht, die in vier Phasen eingeteilt werden können: Erstens die frühe Würzburger Phase, in der er die Zeitdifferenzen in der Weise des urteilenden Verhaltens sieht; zweitens die frühe Wiener Phase, in der er besonderes Augenmerk auf die zeitlichen Unterschiede als Unterschiede des Gegenstandes legt, aber diese seine Auffassung des kontinuierlichen Zeitüberganges auch einer 3-fachen …Read more
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    The history of twentieth century philosophy is characterised by the gap between analytic and continental philosophy -- even though both have their roots in a tradition referred to as 'Austrian' or 'Central-European' philosophy. The essays in this volume show in historical and systematic studies, how a reassessment of this 'Central-European' tradition can build an interesting bridge between phenomenology and analytic philosophy and, thus, create a new foundation that allows for an original perspe…Read more
  •  18
    Wittgenstein e la letteratura
    In Elisa Caldarola, Davide Quattrocchi & Gabriele Tomasi (eds.), Wittgenstein, l'estetica e le arti, Carocci. pp. 227-241. 2013.
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    Mathematics, experience and laboratories: Herbart’s and Brentano’s role in the rise of scientific psychology
    with Christoph Landerer
    History of the Human Sciences 23 (3): 72-94. 2010.
    In this article we present and compare two early attempts to establish psychology as an independent scientific discipline that had considerable influence in central Europe: the theories of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776—1841) and Franz Brentano (1838—1917). While both of them emphasize that psychology ought to be conceived as an empirical science, their conceptions show revealing differences. Herbart starts with metaphysical principles and aims at mathematizing psychology, whereas Brentano rejec…Read more
  •  28
    Cognitive Dimensions of Achieving (and Failing) in Literature
    In J. Dreiber, E. Konrad, T. Petraschka & H. Rott (eds.), Understanding Fiction, Mentis. pp. 26-44. 2012.
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    Franz Brentano
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.