Aristotelian Strands in Franz Brentano’s Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Cover Image

Wątki arystotelesowskie w psychologii i filozofii umysłu Franza Brentano
Aristotelian Strands in Franz Brentano’s Psychology and Philosophy of Mind

Author(s): Sonia Kamińska
Subject(s): Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: Brentano; Aristotle; psychology; philosophy of mind; soul; nous; manuscript; substratum; bundle

Summary/Abstract: This paper revolves around some crucial Aristotelian traces in Franz Brentano’s philosophy of mind and psychology. I describe the distinction between the intellectual soul understood, on the one hand, as a substratum for mental phenomena and, on the other, as a “stream” or “bundle” of mental phenomena. I take into consideration Brentano’s opus magnum, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint as well as his Aristotelica series. I translate into Polish and analyse his notes for the unpublished parts of Psychology (Ps 62/54011-54012, Ps 50/52143-147) and give an account of what some Brentanian (Rollinger) and Aristotelian (Macfarlane and Polansky) scholars have to say about the ontological status of the intellectual soul.

  • Issue Year: 24/2016
  • Issue No: 1 (93)
  • Page Range: 101-122
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish