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Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint » (REV)

Book cover image of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint by Franz Brentano

Authors: Franz Brentano
ISBN-13: 9780415106610, ISBN-10: 0415106613
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Franz Brentano

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

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. 1Psychology as a Science
IThe Concept and Purpose of Psychology3
IIPsychological Method with Special Reference to its Experiential Basis28
IIIFurther Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. Induction of the Fundamental Laws of Psychology44
IVFurther Investigations Concerning Psychological Method. The Inexact Character of its Highest Laws. Deduction and Verification65
Bk. 2Mental Phenomena in General
IThe Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena77
IIInner Consciousness101
IIIFurther Considerations Regarding Inner Consciousness138
IVOn the Unity of Consciousness155
VA Survey of the Principal Attempts to Classify Mental Phenomena177
VIClassification of Mental Activities into Presentations, Judgements, and Phenomena of Love and Hate194
VIIPresentation and Judgement: Two Different Fundamental Classes201
VIIIFeeling and Will United into a Single Fundamental Class235
IXComparison of the Three Basic Classes with the Threefold Phenomena of Inner Consciousness. Determination of their Natural Order265
Supplementary Remarks Intended to Explain and Defend, as well as to Correct and Expand upon the Theory271
Additional Essays from Brentano's Nachlass Concerning Intuitions, Concepts, and Objects of Reason311
Introduction to the 1924 Edition369
Index409

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