The Cambridge Companion to Brentano

Offers newly commissioned chapters on the range of Franz Brentano's work.

Franz Brentano (1838–1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna Circle, and for phenomenology in the work of such figures as his student Edmund Husserl. This volume brings together newly commissioned chapters on his important work in theory of judgement, the reform of syllogistic logic, theory of intentionality, empirical descriptive psychology and phenomenology, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and ontology, value theory, and natural theology. It also offers a critical evaluation of Brentano's significance in his historical context, and of his impact on contemporary philosophy in both the analytic and the continental traditions.

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Chronology; 1. Introduction: Brentano's philosophy Dale Jacquette; 2. Brentano's relation to Aristotle Rolf George and Glen Koehn; 3. Judging correctly: Brentano and the reform of syllogistic Peter Simons; 4. Brentano on the mind Kevin Mulligan; 5. Brentano's concept of intentionality Dale Jacquette; 6. Reflections on intentionality Joseph Margolis; 7. Brentano's epistemology Linda L. McAlister; 8. Brentano on judgment and truth Charles Parsons; 9. Brentano's ontology: from conceptualism to reism Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Barry Smith; 10. Brentano's value theory: beauty, goodness, and the concept of correct emotion Wilhelm Baumgartner and Lynn Pasquerella; 11. Brentano on religion and natural theology Susan F. Krantz; 12. Brentano and Husserl Robin D. Rollinger; 13. Brentano's impact on twentieth-century philosophy Karl Schuhmann; Bibliography; Index.

Franz Brentano led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. This volume offers newly commissioned chapters on the range of his work and assesses his impact on both analytic and continental philosophy.