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Group of philosophers and psychologists
The
School of Brentano
was a group of
philosophers
and
psychologists
who studied with
Franz Brentano
and were essentially influenced by him. While it was never a school in the traditional sense, Brentano tried to maintain some cohesion in the school. However, two of his most famous students,
Alexius Meinong
and
Edmund Husserl
, ultimately moved radically beyond his theories.
Notable members
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Among the School of Brentano are counted several founders of new schools and movements (place and period they studied with Brentano):
- Carl Stumpf
(
Wurzburg
, 1866–1870), taught
Aron Gurwitsch
and became the head of the
Berlin School
(
Max Wertheimer
,
Kurt Koffka
,
Wolfgang Kohler
)
- Edmund Husserl
(
Vienna
, 1884–1886), founded the
phenomenological
movement, influencing:
- Alexius Meinong
(
Vienna
, 1875–1878), was the head of the
Graz School
, and he influenced among others
Stephan Witasek
,
Alois Hofler
,
Vittorio Benussi
- Christian von Ehrenfels
, credited with the introduction of the notion of
Gestalt
, which led to the establishment of
Gestalt psychology
- Kazimierz Twardowski
(Vienna, 1885–1889), became father of the
Lwow?Warsaw school of logic
(
Jan Łukasiewicz
,
Stanisław Le?niewski
,
Tadeusz Kotarbi?ski
,
Władysław Witwicki
,
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
and
Alfred Tarski
)
- Anton Marty
(
Wurzburg
, 1866–1870), developed a detailed theory of language with his disciple
Karl Buhler
, which influenced Reinach (who developed a theory of speech acts long before
John Austin
), whose lectures were attended by
Franz Kafka
[1]
- Sigmund Freud
, founded
psychoanalysis
Other students were:
Scholars such as
Roderick Chisholm
,
George Edward Moore
,
Gilbert Ryle
,
John Searle
,
Barry Smith
,
Kevin Mulligan
,
Peter Simons
and
Jan Wole?ski
have propagated Brentano's influence to analytic philosophy through their research, editions and publications.
Through the works and teachings of his pupils the philosophy of Franz Brentano has been spread far and wide and indirectly influenced many if not most of the debates in
contemporary philosophy
, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
See also
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References
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- ^
Neil Heims (2004).
Franz Kafka
. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. p. 28.
ISBN
079107871X
.
Bibliography
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- The School of Franz Brentano
(ed. L. Albertazzi, M. Libardi & R. Poli), Kluwer, Dordrecht 1996.
ISBN
0-7923-3766-2
- The Cambridge Companion to Brentano
(ed. D. Jacquette), Cambridge University Press 2004.
ISBN
0-521-00765-8
- Rollinger, Robin D.,
Husserl's Position in the School of Brentano
Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999.
ISBN
0-7923-5684-5
- Rollinger, Robin D.,
Austrian Phenomenology: Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, and Others on Mind and Object
, Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
ISBN
978-3-86838-005-7
.
- Barry Smith
,
Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano
, Open Court Publishing Company Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois 1996.
- Barry Smith
-
Brentano and Kafka
In: Axiomathes, 8 (1997), 83?104
- Ion Tanasescu & Victor Popescu (coord.), Gabriel Cercel & Cristian Ciocan (eds.),
The School of Brentano and Husserlian Phenomenology
,
Studia Phaenomenologica
vol. III, nr. 1-2 (2003), ISSN 1582-5647,
ISBN
973-50-0564-6
.