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1508Monism and Particularism: Methodology in Brentano’s PsychologyAxiomathes (4). 2019.The paper argues that Brentano was the exponent of a methodological monism, which is based on the requirement that science should be grounded on experience, and not on a speculative-idealistic principle, as in the case of German idealism. In Brentano’s psychological writings, this methodological requirement concretized in two different theses: (T1) The method of psychology is identical with the method of natural science; (T2) The method of psychology is inspired by the method of natural science.…Read more
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1367The Intentionality of Sensation and the Problem of Classification of Philosophical Sciences in Brentano’s empirical PsychologyAxiomathes 27 (3): 243-263. 2017.In the well-known intentionality quote of his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, Brentano characterises the mental phenomena through the following features: (i) the intentional inexistence of an object, (ii) the relation to a content, and (iii) the direction toward an object. The text argues that this characterisation is not general because the direction toward an object does not apply to the mental phenomena of sensation. The second part of the paper analyses the consequences that ensue f…Read more
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778Metaphysics and psychology are two of Brentano’s main areas of interest in philosophy. His first writings, the dissertation On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle (1862) and the habilitation thesis, The Psychology of Aristotle (1867), bear witness to the duality of his concerns. As such, these works were not only significant contributions to the German Aristotelianism of the second half of the XIXth century, but they also played an important role in the development of Brentano’s later philo…Read more
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422Das Sein der Kopula oder was hat Heidegger bei Brentano Versäumt?Studia Phaenomenologica 2 (1): 97-123. 2002.
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281Intenţionalitatea în exegeza brentaniană schiţa unei polemiciStudia Phaenomenologica 2 (3-4): 143-175. 2002.
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274Le concept psychologique de la représentation de la fantaisie chez Brentano et sa réception chez HusserlStudia Phaenomenologica 10 45-75. 2010.The article analyses the psychological aspects of “phantasy presentation” in Brentano’s lecture Ausgewählte Fragen aus Psychologie und Ästhetik dated 1885/1886. It focuses primarily on two major aspects of Brentano’s work: (1) the traditional understanding of phantasy presentation as intuitive presentation, and as fundamentally related to the perceptual presentation; (2) Brentano’s conception according to which phantasy presentations are “concepts with intuitive nucleus”. In this context, the te…Read more
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248THE TWO THEORIES OF INTENTIONALITY IN BRENTANO AND CHISHOLM’S ONTOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THESESRevue Roumaine de Philosophie 42 (2): 341-350. 2020.R. M. Chisholm interprets Brentano’s theory of intentionality through the lens of two theses: the ontological thesis, according to which the intentionality of the mental designates the fact that there is an immanent object in the act; and the psychological thesis, according to which intentionality consists of the direction of the mental act toward the extra-mental object. In my paper I interpret Chisholm’s and Brentano’s theses on intentionality from two perspectives: intentionality as the most …Read more
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245The two Theories of Intentionality in Brentano and the Program of Psychology from an Empirical StandpointBrentano Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 13 (Brentano’s Concept of Intentiona): 211-231. 2015.The paper defends the following thesis: the intentionality passage from Brentano’s Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874) can be interpre- ted from two perspectives: intentionality as the most salient distinguishing feature separating the mental from the physical, and intentionality as a the- ory of the way in which mental acts, with their contents, are related to ex- tra-mental objects. Fundamentally, the theory of intentionality from 1874 is an example of the former. Its role is that o…Read more
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237Die Phasentheorie. Franz Brentano und Auguste ComteBrentano Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 15 (Der frühe Brentano): 329-360. 2017.Die Abhandlung entwickelt und vertritt folgende Thesen: (1) Brentanos Vier-Phasen-Theorie wurde unabhängig von Comtes Drei-Stadien-Gesetz entworfen . (2) Aber Brentano legte großen Wert darauf, die Übereinstim- mung beider Theorien zu unterstreichen . (3) Beide Theorien gehen von verschiedenen Geschichtsauffassungen aus: Comtes Theorie schließt die Geschichte der fundamentalen positiven Wissenschaften ein, die geradli- nig verläuft, stets aufwärts führt und durch keine gesetzmäßig auftretenden V…Read more
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45The Intentionality of Sensation and the Problem of Classification of Philosophical Sciences in Brentano’s empirical PsychologyAxiomathes 27 (3): 243-263. 2017.In the well-known intentionality quote of his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, Brentano characterises the mental phenomena through the following features: the intentional inexistence of an object, the relation to a content, and the direction toward an object. The text argues that this characterisation is not general because the direction toward an object does not apply to the mental phenomena of sensation. The second part of the paper analyses the consequences that ensue from here for th…Read more
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38Monism and Particularism: Methodology in Brentano’s PsychologyAxiomathes 29 (4): 397-412. 2019.The paper argues that Brentano was the exponent of a methodological monism, which is based on the requirement that science should be grounded on experience, and not on a speculative-idealistic principle, as in the case of German idealism. In Brentano’s psychological writings, this methodological requirement concretized in two different theses: The method of psychology is identical with the method of natural science; The method of psychology is inspired by the method of natural science. The thesi…Read more
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26Before now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the multiple relations between A. Comte’s and J.S. Mill’s positive philosophy and Franz Brentano’s work. The present volume aims to fill this gap and to identify Brentano’s position in the context of the positive philosophy of the 19th century by analyzing the following themes: the concept of positive knowledge; philosophy and empirical, genetic and descriptive psychology as sciences in Brentano, Comte and Mill; the strategies for the rebir…Read more
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18Ist die Empfindung intentional? Der Brentanosche Hintergrund einer Kritik HusserlsStudia Phaenomenologica 3 (1): 75-95. 2003.
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15Psychologie, Seiendes, Phantasie bei Franz BrentanoDe Gruyter. 2021.Das Buch betrachtet Brentanos Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt als eine methodologische Schrift, die einen wichtigen Beitrag zur positiven Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts leistet und gegenüber seiner Deskriptiven Psychologie ein selbstständiges Projekt ausmacht. Es untersucht auch Themen Brentanos, die für die Phänomenologie Heideggers und Husserls relevant sind: das veritative Seiende, die Phantasievorstellung und die Intentionalität.
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14Categorial relations as truth-makers in Franz brentano’s dissertationTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 76 (2): 247-260. 2014.The study argues against the thesis that, in his first writing, Franz Brentano neglected the role of truth-makers in Aristotle’s theory of truth. It reveals textual evidence that proves the importance of truth-makers in Brentano’s analysis of the Aristotelian correspondence theory of truth in his 1862 doctoral dissertation. It also supports the idea that Brentano’s deduction of Aristotle’s categories in that work is based on the central tenet of Aristotle’s theory of truth, i.e., the agreement b…Read more
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12Die Reihe präsentiert Monographien und Sammelbände zur österreichischen Philosophie sowie zur Phänomenologie und ihrer Geschichte im Allgemeinen. Phenomenology & Mind bietet darüber hinaus ein Publikationsforum für eine große Bandbreite unterschiedlicher Forschungsansätze zur Philosophie des Geistes.
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9A problem of the intentional relation of presentation in brentano’s empirical psychologyTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 77 (2): 251-271. 2015.In this paper, I argue that Brentano’s analysis of the mental act of presentation faces a major difficulty. Specifically, Brentano provides a description of the intentional relation of presentation that neglects an important difference between sensory presentation and nominal presentation. I also maintain that there are four kinds of intentional relations in Brentano’s empirical psychology: 1) intentional relation as a genus, 2) the relation of bare intentional containing of sensory presentation…Read more
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2The Question Of Description In Franz Brentano’s Descriptive Psychology / / Das Problem Der Beschreibung In Franz Brentanos Deskriptiver PsychologieStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philosophia 2. 1995.The paper analyses the method of Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology and argues that this method can be considered as a preparatory form of Husserl’s phenomenological method. It analyses the following methodological stages: experiencing, noticing, fixing, inductive generalization and making deductive use. The paper asserts that noticing constitues the main methodical stage for Brentano, arguing that it represents a cognitive process which clarifies the particular components of a confused com…Read more
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Categoriile mereologiei brentanieneAnnals of the University of Craiova, Series: Philosophy 32-46. 2011.
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Das Problem der Beschreibung in Franz Brentanos deskriptiver PsychologieStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philosophia 2. 2010.The paper analyses the method of Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology and argues that this method can be considered as a preparatory form of Husserl’s phenomenological method. It analyses the following methodological stages: experiencing, noticing, fixing, inductive generalization and making deductive use. The paper asserts that noticing constitues the main methodical stage for Brentano, arguing that it represents a cognitive process which clarifies the particular components of a confused com…Read more
Ion Tanasescu
Institute of Philosophy and Psychology of The Romanian Academy
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Institute of Philosophy and Psychology of The Romanian AcademyOther
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
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History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |