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Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy

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  • Contains contributions by well-renowned scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science
  • Provides an in-depth overview of Franz Brentano's philosophy and impact
  • Shows the effect of Franz Brentano's research on contemporary Austrian and European philosophy

Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 24)

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About this book

The book discusses Franz Brentano’s impact on Austrian philosophy. It contains both a critical reassessment of Brentano’s place in the development of Austrian philosophy at the turn of the 20th century and a reevaluation of the impact and significance of his philosophy of mind or ‘descriptive psychology’ which was Brentano's most important contribution to contemporary philosophy and to the philosophy in Vienna. In addition, the relation between Brentano, phenomenology, and the Vienna Circle is investigated, together with a related documentation of Brentano's disciple Alfred Kastil (in German). The general part deals with the ongoing discussion of Carnap's "Aufbau" (Vienna Circle Lecture by Alan Chalmers) and the philosophy of mind, with a focus on physicalism as discussed by Carnap and Wittgenstein (Gergely Ambrus). As usual, two reviews of recent publications in the philosophy of mathematics (Paolo Mancosu) and research on Otto Neurath's lifework (Jordi Cat/Adam Tuboly)are included as related research contributions. This book is of interest to students, historians, and philosophers dealing with the history of Austrian and German philosophy in the 19th and 20th century. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Denis Fisette

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Guillaume Fréchette

  • Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Friedrich Stadler

About the editors

Denis Fisette is professor in the department of philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal and he teaches philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the history of philosophy in Austria and Germany. He studied philosophy in Montreal (Université de Montréal), in Germany (Freie Universität Berlin, 1982-1985), and in USA (postdoctoral research at Stanford University, 1987-1989). In recent years, his historical research has focused more specifically on the philosophical program of Franz Brentano and his successors (including Husserl's early phenomenology) while his research in the field of philosophy of mind currently bares on emotions and emotional awareness in general.

Guillaume Fréchette is project director at the University of Salzburg. His research is devoted to the Austro-German tradition. He studies the relation of this tradition both  to other trends of 19th Century philosophy and to contemporary philosophy of consciousness and mind. 



Friedrich Stadler is an Austrian historian of science and philosopher of science, professor em. for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. He is also the founder (in 1991) and long-time director/head of the Institute Vienna Circle, which was established as a Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education of the Vienna University in 2011. Currently he is a permanent fellow of the Institute Vienna Circle and Director of the Vienna Circle Society. His research and teaching cover HPS, Austrian philosophy, esp. Mach, Wittgenstein, Popper, the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism as well as intellectual migration



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy

  • Editors: Denis Fisette, Guillaume Fréchette, Friedrich Stadler

  • Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40947-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40946-3Published: 06 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40949-4Published: 06 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40947-0Published: 05 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 0929-6328

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1818

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 441

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology

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