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FRANZ BRENTANO’S MEREOLOGY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY
FRANZ BRENTANO’S MEREOLOGY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Author(s): Flávio Curvello Vieira
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: mereology; unity of consciousness; inner perception descriptive psychology; genetic psychology; epistemology of psychology

Summary/Abstract: I analyse Brentano’s argumentative strategy from his lectures in the Deskriptive Psychologie and how he introduces and reframes his fundamental psychological theses. His approach provides us with the reasons why psychology can be distinguished into different domains of investigation and how the tasks of one of these domains—the de-scriptive-psychological one—imply a specific understanding about the structure of consciousness. Thereby a mereology of consciousness is developed, which offers the theoretical background to the aforementioned reframing of the Brentanian theses.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 109-123
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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