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(2012) From psychology to phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer.
The following book presents an outline and critical reading of Franz Brentano's philosophy of mind focusing closely on the system outlined in his magnum opus Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint.1 In this 1874 text Brentano articulates a teleological and neo-Aristotelian framework for understanding the mental as representational. Brentano's earlier development of Aristotelian metaphysics and ontology in an empirical direction set the stage for the articulation of his philosophical psychology and new theory of the mental. Nonetheless Brentano's philosophical psychology still forms one of the overlooked alternatives in contemporary philosophy of mind. This is not to deny that the philosophical system of the PES has not had a strong, albeit indirect, influence on subsequent philosophy of mind. Many isolated aspects of Brentano's thought have been critically examined and commented on in the existing literature, yet the actual position put forth in the PES is almost never examined in itself as a whole and within its historical context.2
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Tassone, B.G. (2012). Introduction, in From psychology to phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-14.
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