Authors: Franz Brentano
ISBN-13: 9780415106610, ISBN-10: 0415106613
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: REV
Franz Brentano's classic study Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint was the most important of Brentano's works to be published in his lifetime. Unlike the first English translation in 1974, this edition contains the text corresponding to Brentano's original 1874 edition.
An introduction by Peter Simons places Brentano's work in the context of current philosophical thought. He is able to show how Brentano has emerged since the Seventies as a key figure in both contemporary European and Anglo-American traditions and crucial to any understanding the history of philosophy and psychology.
Introduction to the Second Edition | ||
Preface to the 1973 English Edition | ||
Foreword to the 1911 Edition: The Classification of Mental Phenomena | ||
Foreword to the 1874 Edition | ||
Bk. 1 | Psychology as a Science | |
I | The Concept and Purpose of Psychology | 3 |
II | Psychological Method with Special Reference to its Experiential Basis | 28 |
III | Further Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. Induction of the Fundamental Laws of Psychology | 44 |
IV | Further Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. The Inexact Character of its Highest Laws. Deduction and Verification | 65 |
Bk. 2 | Mental Phenomena in General | |
I | The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena | 77 |
II | Inner Consciousness | 101 |
III | Further Considerations Regarding Inner Consciousness | 138 |
IV | On the Unity of Consciousness | 155 |
V | A Survey of the Principal Attempts to Classify Mental Phenomena | 177 |
VI | Classification of Mental Activities into Presentations, Judgements, and Phenomena of Love and Hate | 194 |
VII | Presentation and Judgement: Two Different Fundamental Classes | 201 |
VIII | Feeling and Will United into a Single Fundamental Class | 235 |
IX | Comparison of the Three Basic Classes with the Threefold Phenomena of Inner Consciousness. Determination of their Natural Order | 265 |
Supplementary Remarks Intended to Explain and Defend, as well as to Correct and Expand upon the Theory | 271 | |
Additional Essays from Brentano's Nachlass Concerning Intuitions, Concepts, and Objects of Reason | 311 | |
Introduction to the 1924 Edition | 369 | |
Index | 409 |