Descriptive psychology / Franz Brentano ; translated and edited by Benito Muller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brentano, Franz, 1838-1917.

Contributor:

Müller, Benito, 1958-

Series:

International library of philosophy.

International library of philosophy

Standardized Title:

Deskriptive Psychologie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Descriptive psychology.

Phenomenological psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought. It was his work that set Husserl on to the road of phenomenology and intentionality, that inspired Meinong's theory of the object which influenced Bertrand Russell, and the entire Polish school of philosophy.^Descriptive Psychology presents a series of lectures given by Brentano in 1887; they were the culmination of his work, and the clearest statement of his mature thought. It was this later period which proved to be so important in the work of his student, Husserl.This is the first English tr

Contents:

DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The task of psychognosy; 1 Psychognosy and Genetic Psychology; 2 Elements of Consciousness; Unity, not simplicity of consciousness; Separable and distinctional parts; A fictitious example; Distinctional parts in the strict sense; Distinctional parts in the modified sense; 3 The Correct Method of the Psychognost; Introduction; Experiencing; Noticing; Fixing; Inductive generalization; Making deductive use; Psychognosy as precondition for genetic psychology; Part II A survey of psychognosy

1 The Components of Human Consciousness2 Psychical Acts; Introduction; Two main classes of psychical acts: fundamental acts and superposed acts; The nature of fundamental psychical acts; The primary objects of fundamental psychical acts; 3 The General Character of Sensations; Spatial determination; Of what fills space; Appendices; Appendix 1 Inner Perception; Appendix 2 Descriptive Psychology or Descriptive Phenomenology; The concept of descriptive psychology; The genesis of descriptive psychology; Summary; Appendix 3 Of The Content of Experiences; Appendix 4 Psychognostic Sketch

IntroductionOf the relations of the soul; Appendix 5 Psychognostic Sketch: Different Adaptation; Psychognosy; Psychology; Appendix 6 Perceiving, Apperceiving, Clearly Apperceiving, Compounded Apperceiving, Transcendentally Apperceiving; Editors' notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-84052-7

1-280-10520-8

0-203-29805-5

0-203-00604-6

9780203006047

OCLC:

277720773