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    Objectivity about colors
    In Phenomenology and colour, . 2024.
    Phénoménologies - ULiège.
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    In his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint of 1874, Franz Brentano strongly criticizes Lotze for sticking to the Aristotelian view of psychology as a “theory of the soul”. He also disagrees with him on some key methodological issues. Most significantly, his analytical approach may seem hardly compatible with Lotze’s claim that mental relations, unlike physical ones, are essentially obscure. My suggestion in this paper is that, these differences notwithstanding, the two authors’ views on psyc…Read more
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    Existe-t-il des phénomènes mentaux?
    Philosophie 124 (1): 105-126. 2014.
  • Décrire n'est pas tout : Kurt Lewin sur l'émotion
    In Natalie Depraz & Maria Gyemant (eds.), Phénoménologie des émotions, Hermann. 2022.
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    Preface
    with Sébastien Richard and Bruno Leclercq
    In Bruno Leclercq, Sebastien Richard & Denis Seron (eds.), Objects and Pseudo-Objects Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap, De Gruyter. 2015.
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    Experiencing the a priori
    European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 371-379. 2021.
    Brentano clearly asserts, in his Vienna lectures of 1887–1888, that his descriptive psychology is an a priori or “exact” science. Since he rejects Kant's idea of a synthetic a priori, this means that the descriptive psychologist's laws are analytic. My aim in this paper is to clarify and discuss this view. I examine Brentano's epistemology in the Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint and then its later developments. I conclude with a difficulty inherent in Brentano's psychological approach to …Read more
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    Brentano and the ideality of time
    Revista de Filosofia Moderna E Contemporânea 9 (2). forthcoming.
    How is it possible to have present memory experiences of things that, being past, are no longer presently experienced? A possible answer to this long-standing philosophical question is what I call the “ideality of time view,” namely the view that temporal succession is unreal. In this paper I outline the basic idea behind Brentano’s version of the ideality of time view. Additionally, I contrast it with Hume’s version, suggesting that, despite significant differences, it can nonetheless be constr…Read more
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    La critique de la perception interne de Brentano à Heidegger
    Études Phénoménologiques 19 (37): 115-147. 2003.
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    On Reinach's realism
    New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. forthcoming.
    It is commonly assumed that Adolf Reinach was a full-fledged realist. The aim of this paper is to clarify in what sense Reinach can be called a “realist.” I identify two distinct realisms in Reinach. First, Reinach advocates a metaphysical realism. He defines logic as an ontology of mind-independent states of affaires and seeks to build up a Meinong-style theory of object based on a non-Husserlian understanding of Husserl’s intuition of essences. Second, Reinach also defends an epistemological r…Read more
  •  7
    Franz Brentano's critique of free will
    In Tobias Keiling & Christopher Erhard (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency, . 2020.
    Peer reviewed.
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    Psychology first!
    Studien Zur Österreichischen Philosophie. forthcoming.
    Brentano as well as many of his followers — with notable exceptions, especially Husserl — assigned to psychology a foundational role in the edifice of science, including philosophy. My suggestion in the present paper is that this view is a consequence of Brentano’s theory of intentionality. Brentano’s thesis of the intentionality of the mental, I argue, first and foremost expresses a strong epistemological position about what knowledge in general is: all knowledge, whether inner or outer, has it…Read more
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    Color Geometry – Or Color Grammar?
    In Arnaud Dewalque & Venanzio Raspa (eds.), Psychological Themes in the School of Alexius Meinong, De Gruyter. pp. 33-46. 2019.
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    Adolf Reinach’s Philosophy of Logic
    In Bruno Leclercq, Sebastien Richard & Denis Seron (eds.), Objects and Pseudo-Objects Ontological Deserts and Jungles From Brentano to Carnap, De Gruyter. pp. 167-182. 2015.
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    Intentionality and epistemological relativity
    Brentano‐Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 16 (1): 207-228. 2018.
    Peer reviewed.
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    A phenomenological argument for realism
    Analecta Hermeneutica: International Institute for Hermeneutics 12. forthcoming.
    peer reviewed.
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    Intentionality vs. Psychophysical Identity
    In Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence, Springer Verlag. 2019.
    Brentano’s empiricism displays striking similarities with Mach’s phenomenalism. Both authors hold physical reality to be a “fiction” and reject the traditional view of truth and existence. In this paper, the author seeks to clarify some aspects of the Mach-Brentano debate, with a special focus on the theory of intentionality. First, he links this debate to an earlier one, namely to the debate about the mind-body relation. Secondly, he discusses some of Brentano’s objections and construes his int…Read more
  •  14
    Brentano and Mauthner on grammatical illusions
    In Arnaud Dewalque, Charlotte Gauvry & Sébastien Richard (eds.), Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School: Reassessing the Brentanian Legacy, Palgrave Macmillan. forthcoming.
    This paper aims to suggest that Brentano’s theory of intentionality, at least in its later formulation, is not only about mind and also belongs to a tradition of deconstructing language that includes prominent figures of Austrian and German philosophy such as Mach, Vaihinger, and Wittgenstein. In order to establish this, the author explores some differences and similarities between this theory and Fritz Mauthner’s critique of language. He argues that the very starting point of both is one and th…Read more
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    Intentionality and the language of appearance
    In Karel Novotný & Cathrin Nielsen (eds.), The World and the Real, Traugott Bautz. forthcoming.
    peer reviewed.
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    Color Geometry - Or Color Grammar?
    Meinong Studies. forthcoming.
    This article discusses some difficulties of the theory of color propounded by Meinong in his Re-marks on the Color Solid and the Mixture Law of 1903. First, I argue that Meinong’s geometrical approach faces at least three sets of difficulties related to the following assumptions: colors pos-sess a “nature” that can be grasped through intuition; they are separated from each other by continua in color space; there are an infinite number of a priori relations between colors. Second, I confront the …Read more
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    Réduction et subjectivation chez Theodor Celms
    Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 10 (2): 295-316. 2018.
    The work of the Latvian phenomenologist Theodor Celms provides an interesting attempt to reinterpret Husserl’s phenomenological reduction in terms of Natorp’s subjectivation. This paper summarizes in broad outline some salient features of Celms’ theory of subjectivation and discusses some of its similarities and differences with Husserl’s and Natorp’s views. I focus on two more central points. First, Celms proposes to interpret Husserlian reduction as radicalizing or generalizing an operation of…Read more
  • Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres (review)
    Dialogue 41 (1): 172-172. 2002.
    Cette traduction complète des Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres de Diogène Laërce, sous la direction de M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, représente ce qu'il convient d'appeler un événement éditorial. Faut-il le rappeler, Diogène Laërce, en dépit de sa notoriété et de son utilité pour l'étude de la philosophie ancienne, reste un auteur peu traduit et peu édité. Pour s'en tenir à l'époque moderne et aux traductions complètes, le lecteur francophone n'avait guère à sa disposition, jusqu'ici, que les tr…Read more
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    Panorama sur quelques problèmes fondamentaux soulevés par le projet husserlien d'une critique phénoménologique de la connaissance.
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    Sur l’analogie entre théorie et pratique chez Brentano
    Bulletin d'Analyse Phénoménologique 4. 2008.
    Les pages qui suivent sont consacrées à un certain problème qui est au fondement de l’éthique de Franz Brentano. Je tâcherai de clarifier et de problématiser l’idée brentanienne d’une analogie entre logique et éthique, entre correction logique et justice éthique, entre l’existant et le bien. Après en avoir dégager la signification générale, j’en indiquerai les conséquences les plus importantes sur l’éthique brentanienne dans son ensemble. Une première conséquence, que je commenterai en détail, e…Read more