Brentano’s Methodology as a Path through the Divide: On Combining Phenomenological Descriptions and Logical Analysis

Röck, Tina

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“…Haller contrasts the influence of Kant on German philosophy with the shunning of this tradition by figures at work in the Austro-Hungarian Empire such as Bolzano and later Brentano. The Brentanian development of a scientificallyminded philosophy within an empiricist tradition is seen by both Neurath and later Haller as one of the many predecessors and allies of the scientific conception of the world (see Rock (2017) and Vrahimis (2018)).…”

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Language, Truth and Logic and the Anglophone Reception of the Vienna Circle

Vrahimis

2020

The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic

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A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic had been responsible for introducing the Vienna Circle's ideas, developed within a Germanophone framework, to an Anglophone readership. Inevitably, this migration from one context to another resulted in the alteration of some of the concepts being transmitted. Such alterations have served to facilitate a number of false impressions of Logical Empiricism from which recent scholarship still tries to recover. In this paper, I will attempt to point to the ways in which LTL has helped to foster the various mistaken stereotypes about Logical Empiricism which were combined into the received view. I will begin by examining Ayer's all too brief presentation of an Anglocentric lineage for his ideas. This lineage, as we shall see, simply omits the major 19 th century Germanophone influences on the rise of analytic philosophy. The Germanophone ideas he presents are selectively introduced into an Anglophone context, and directed towards various concerns that arose within that context. I will focus on the differences between Carnap's version of the overcoming of metaphysics, and Ayer's reconfiguration into what he calls the elimination of metaphysics. Having discussed the above, I will very briefly outline the consequences that Ayer's radicalisation of the Vienna Circle's doctrines had on the subsequent Anglophone reception of Logical Empiricism.1 This paper was first presented in 2018 at the conference on 'The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic' at the University of Pécs, organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the "Empiricism and atomism in twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy" Research Group. I owe many thanks to all those present, as well as to the anonymous reviewers, for many helpful questions and suggestions. I am particularly grateful to Adam Tamas Tuboly for inviting me to contribute to the conference and book, and for his many insightful comments and suggestions.

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Language, Truth and Logic and the Anglophone Reception of the Vienna Circle

Vrahimis

2020

The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic

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“…5 5 For a more positive evaluation of Brentano’s conception of descriptive psychology as an exact science, see Röck, 2017. …”

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The purposes of descriptive psychology

Brandl

2021

European J of Philosophy

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In this paper, I discuss the different views of the founders of descriptive psychology in the 19th century about the meaning and purpose of this discipline and sketch a new plan for connecting descriptive psychology with the language‐critical tradition of analytic philosophy. I will show that the goals Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano, and Wilhelm Dilthey set for descriptive psychology were too lofty for different reasons. The common problem they faced was how to reconcile the ideal of autonomous philosophical knowledge with the empirical relevance that descriptive psychology should have. Faced with this dilemma, I outline a new plan to conceive of descriptive psychology as a critical project aimed at overcoming the obstacles that language places in the way of our knowledge of mental phenomena.

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The Brentano School and the History of Analytic Philosophy: Reply to Röck

Vrahimis

2018

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Brentano’s Methodology as a Path through the Divide: On Combining Phenomenological Descriptions and Logical Analysis

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Language, Truth and Logic and the Anglophone Reception of the Vienna Circle

Language, Truth and Logic and the Anglophone Reception of the Vienna Circle

The purposes of descriptive psychology

The Brentano School and the History of Analytic Philosophy: Reply to Röck

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