We Owe It To Sigwart! A New Look at the Content/Object Distinction in Early Phenomenological Theories of Judgment from Brentano to Twardowski

Betti, Arianna

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“…Nonetheless, some scholars (e.g., Chrudzimski 2001, pp. 33-37;Betti 2013) rightly claim that Brentano elaborated the content-object distinction before Twardowski published his Habilitationsschrift in 1894. In any case, Twardowski's anti-psychologism concerns both methodological and ontological issues.…”

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From psychology to phenomenology (and back again): A controversy over the method in the school of Twardowski

Płotka

2019

Phenom Cogn Sci

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This paper seeks to define the main trends, arguments and problems regarding the question of method formulated by Twardowski and his students. In this regard, the aim of the paper is twofold. First, I situate Brentano's project of descriptive psychology within the context of disputes in the school of Twardowski concerning the method of both psychology and phenomenology, arguing that descriptive-psychological analysis was dominant in this respect. Second, the study explores the notion of eidetic phenomenology, as founded on a methodological procedure, which supposed to guarantee infallibility of its descriptions. To show this, I first reconstruct Brentano's concept of descriptive psychology, its object, its method and aims. Second, I track the changes and reinterpretations provided by Twardowski in his view of descriptivepsychological analysis. Third, I explore Witwicki's and Bandrowski's-both early students of Twardowski-discussions of the descriptive approach. I try to show that the former accepted psychologism, while the latter overcame it by means of logical analysis. Fourth, I suggest that the only student of Twardowski who renounced the Brentanian method was Ingarden, who developed eidetic phenomenology. Finally, I present Blaustein's-one of the last students of Twardowski-reappraisal of descriptive psychology and his critique of Ingarden's method. This controversy over the method of descriptive psychology reveals how one can situate Twardowski's legacy within early phenomenology in Poland.

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“…On Łukasiewicz and his role in early phenomenology in Poland, seePłotka 2017, p. 82- 83. 17 On Sigwart's contribution to the discussions in early phenomenology and to Twardowski's theory, seeBetti 2013;Varga 2016. From psychology to phenomenology (and back again): A controversy...…”

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