Overview
- Shows the significance, originality and timely character of the Brentanian philosophy of language
- Reconstructs Brentano’s pathbreaking thoughts on meaning and grammatical illusions
- Provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the legacy of Brentano and his school
Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Brentano School: Act, Meaning and Object
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs, to philosophy of language. Despite the great interest provoked by the Brentanian tradition and its multiple connections with early analytic philosophy, precious little is known about the Brentanian contribution to philosophy of language. The aim of this new collection is to fill this gap by providing the reader with a more thorough understanding of the legacy of Brentano and his school, in their pursuit of a unique research programme according to which the analysis of meaning is inseparable from philosophical inquiries into what goes on in the mind and what there is in the world.
In three parts, the volume first reconstructs Brentano’s pathbreaking thoughts on meaning and grammatical illusions, exploring their strong connections with the Austro-German tradition and analytic philosophy. It then addresses the multifaceted debates on the objectivity of meaning in the Brentano School and its aftermath (Meinong, Husserl, Ingarden, Twardowski and the Lvov-Warsaw School). Finally, part three explores Brentano’s wider legacy, namely: Husserl’s theory of modification and typicality, Bühler’s theory of linguistic and non-linguistic expressions, and Wittgenstein’s thoughts on guidance and rule-following.
The result is a unique collection of essays which shows the significance, originality and timely character of the Brentanian philosophy of language.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Arnaud Dewalque is a professor at the philosophy department of the University of Liège, Belgium
Charlotte Gauvry is a temporary lecturer at the University of Liège, Belgium
Sébastien Richard is a temporary lecturer at the Free university of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School
Book Subtitle: Reassessing the Brentanian Legacy
Editors: Arnaud Dewalque, Charlotte Gauvry, Sébastien Richard
Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52211-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52210-0Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52213-1Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52211-7Published: 23 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5994
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 322
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy