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724The Origins of Phenomenology in Austro-German Philosophy. Brentano, HusserlIn John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 418-453. 2019.The development of phenomenology in nineteenth‐century German philosophy is that of a particular stream within the larger historical‐philosophical complex of Austro‐German philosophy. As the “grandfather of phenomenology” resp. the “disgusted grandfather of phenomenology,” but also as the key figure on the “Anglo‐Austrian Analytic Axis”, Brentano is at the source of the two main philosophical traditions in twentieth‐century philosophy. This chapter focuses mainly on his place in nineteenth‐centu…Read more
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626Brentano's Thesis (Revisited)In Denis Fisette & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Themes from Brentano, Editions Rodopi. pp. 91-119. 2013.
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593Descriptive Psychology: Brentano and DiltheyHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (1): 290-307. 2020.Although Wilhelm Dilthey and Franz Brentano apparently were pursuing roughly the same objective—to offer a description of our mental functions and of their relations to objects—and both called their respective research programs ‘descriptive psychology’, they seem to have used the term to refer to two different methods of psychological research. In this article, I compare analyses of these differences. Against the reading of Orth but also against a possible application of recent relativist accoun…Read more
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292L’intentionnalité et le caractère qualitatif des vécus. Husserl, Brentano et LotzeStudia Phaenomenologica 10 91-117. 2010.Lotze’s influence on the development of the XIXth and XXth century philosophy and psychology remains largely neglected still today. In this paper, I examine some Lotzean elements in Husserl’s early conception of intentionality, and more specifically in his rejection of the Brentanian concept of intentionality. I argue that Husserl and Lotze, pace Brentano, share a qualitative conception of experiences, what they both call the Zumutesein of experiences. Furthermore, I discuss other issues upon wh…Read more
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278The Given: Experience and Its Content, written by Michelle MontagueGrazer Philosophische Studien 96 (2): 273-279. 2019.
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266Essential Laws. On Ideal Objects and their Properties in Early PhenomenologyIn Bruno Leclercq, Sébastien Richard & Denis Seron (eds.), Objects and Pseudo-Objects Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap, De Gruyter. pp. 143-166. 2015.
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259EinführungIn Arkadiusz Chrudzimski & Thomas Binder (eds.), Aristoteles und seine Weltanschauung, De Gruyter. 2018.
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258Kant, Brentano and Stumpf on Psychology and Anti-PsychologismIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 727-736. 2013.
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253Brentano et la FranceRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 142 (4): 459. 2017.Introduction au numéro spécial de la Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger en hommage au centenaire de la mort de Franz Brentano.
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228Phenomenology as Descriptive PsychologySymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (2): 150-170. 2012.Is phenomenology nothing else than descriptive psychology? In the first edition of his Logical Investigations (LI), Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a description and analysis of the experiences of knowledge, unequivocally stating that “phenomenology is descriptive psychology.” Most interestingly, although the first edition of the LI was the reference par excellence in phenomenology for the Munich phenomenologists, they remained suspicious of this characterisationof phenomenology. The aim o…Read more
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150Stumpf on AbstractionIn Denis Fisette & Riccardo Martinelli (eds.), Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf, Brill. pp. 263-292. 2015.From the point of view of Husserl's critique of empiricist theories of abstraction in the Logical Investigations, it seems that Brentano and most of his students would have endorsed the presupposition of Locke's theory of abstraction, which Husserl labels as the 'psychological hypostatization of the general'. For Husserl himself, but also for most of his followers, the motivation behind this critique is that the descriptive psychology of the school of Brentano leads to psychologism if one doesn…Read more
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148Marty on AbstractionIn Hamid Taieb & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Mind and Language – On the Philosophy of Anton Marty, De Gruyter. pp. 169-194. 2017.
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64Searching for the Self: Early Phenomenological Accounts of Self-Consciousness from Lotze to SchelerInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (5): 1-26. 2013.Phenomenological accounts of self-consciousness are often said to combine two elements by means of a necessary connection: the primitive and irre- ducible subjective character of experiences and the idealist transcendental constitution of consciousness. In what follows I argue that this connection is not necessary in order for an account of self-consciousness to be phenomenological, as shown by early phenomenological accounts of self- consciousness – particularly in Munich phenomenology. First o…Read more
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46Why does it matter to individuate the senses: A Brentanian approachEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 413-430. 2023.How do we individuate the senses, what exactly do we do when we do so, and why does it matter? In the following article, I propose a general answer to these related questions based on Franz Brentano's views on the senses. After a short survey of various answers offered in the recent literature on the senses, I distinguish between two major ways of answering this question, causally and descriptively, arguing that only answers giving priority to description and to the classification involved in it…Read more
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43La Logique de la philosophie et la doctrine des catégories. Étude sur la forme logique et sa souverainetéEmil Lask Traduit de l'allemand par J.-F. Courtine, M. de Launay, D. Pradelle et P. Quesne Collection «Bibliothèque des Textes Philosophiques» Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2002, 290 p (review)Dialogue 43 (4): 800-803. 2004.
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40Alessandro Salice, Ed., Intentionality. Historical and Systematic Perspectives. With a foreword by John R. Searle (review)Husserl Studies 31 (1): 89-93. 2015.This volume presents thirteen essays on intentionality, with a strong focus on historical issues—nine articles deal with the concepts of intentionality in Spinoza, Leibniz, Bolzano, Brentano, Marty, Husserl, and Pfänder—but also taking into consideration some contemporary issues about intentionality, especially from the perspective of externalism and on the question of collective intentionality. The wide variety of topics, historical periods, and perspectives presented in this volume bears witne…Read more
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40Daubert et les limites de la phénoménologie : Étude sur le donné et l'évidencePhilosophiques 28 (2): 303-326. 2001.Johannes Daubert est la figure centrale du Cercle de Munich ainsi que le premier véritable lecteur et critique de Husserl. Ses manuscrits contiennent, en plus d'une critique de la phénoménologie husserlienne, une conception originale de la phénoménologie laissant notamment une place importante aux analyses perceptives. Le présent article s'intéresse d'abord aux thèmes du donné et de l'évidence en tant qu'ils sont des motifs centraux à la fois chez Husserl et Daubert, pour ensuite relever, à part…Read more
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39Contenu et objet du jugement chez BrentanoPhilosophiques 38 (1): 241-261. 2011.Logical realism is undoubtedly one of the central features which characterize many of the major works in Austrian philosophy from Bolzano to Husserl. Although this remark is true, as we believe, one must not forget the fact that some of the key concepts of Austrian philosophy are rooted in theories that reject realist principles. As an example, take the concept of state of affairs in Austrian philosophy, and more specifically, Franz Brentano's conception of judgement contents. By showing the mot…Read more
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36Le moment normatif dans la philosophie austro-allemandePhilosophiques 42 (2): 375-384. 2015.Guillaume Fréchette
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36Essential Laws: On Ideal Objects and their Properties in Early PhenomenologyIn Bruno Leclercq, Sébastien Richard & Denis Seron (eds.), Objects and Pseudo-Objects Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap, De Gruyter. pp. 143-166. 2015.In the present paper, I try to shed some light on the Munich-Göttingen conception of essences, laws of essence, and ideal objects. I first start with a preliminary account of their conception of the synthetic a priori at the basis of their conception of essence (§2); I then offer a first characterization of this conception, which I label as metaphysical realism (§3), highlighting its key concept: foundation (§4). In the last four sections (§§5-8), I discuss different outcomes of this conception …Read more
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34Husserl et la naissance de la phénoménologie Jean-François Lavigne Collection «Épiméthée» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 809 p (review)Dialogue 45 (2): 400. 2006.
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33Two Phenomenological Accounts of IntuitionIn Harald A. Wiltsche & Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (eds.), Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 129-142. 2016.Phenomenological accounts of intuition are often considered as significantly different from, or even incommensurable with most of the conception of intuitions defended in analytical philosophy. In this paper, I reject this view. Starting with what I consider to be a relatively neutral phenomenological account of intuition, I first present the main features of Husserl’s and Brentano’s accounts of intuition, showing the structural similarities and differences between these two views. After confro…Read more
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33Brentano on Perception and IllusionIn Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), The Philosophy of Perception: Proceedings of the 40th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 119-134. 2019.Brentano’s philosophy of perception has often been understood as a special chapter of his theory of intentionality. If all and only mental phenomena are constitutively intentional, and if perceptual experience is mental by definition, then all perceptual experiences are intentional experiences. I refer to this conception as the “standard view” of Brentano’s account of perception. Different options are available to support the standard view: a sense-data theory of perception; an adverbialist acco…Read more
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32Dans la réception de Bolzano, et probablement depuis les Prolégomènes de Husserl, on insiste généralement sur le fait que la Théorie de la science (1837) de Bolzano vise à développer une théorie des représentations et des propositions qui fait de celles-ci des entités logiques de plein droit, indépendantes des actes de pensée, et seules porteuses des propriétés dont traite la logique (vérité, fausseté, objectualité, etc.) L’importance accordée à cette position, souvent appelée réalisme logique (…Read more
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32Mind and Language – On the Philosophy of Anton Marty (edited book)De Gruyter. 2017.Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847–Prague, 1914) contributed significantly to some of the central themes of Austrian philosophy. This collection contributes to assessing the specificity of his theses in relation with other Austrian philosophers. Although strongly inspired by his master, Franz Brentano, Marty developed his own theory of intentionality, understood as a sui generis relation of similarity. Moreover, he established a comprehensive philosophy of language, or "semasiology", based on descriptive…Read more
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Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |