Franz Brentano’s Mereology and the Principles of Descriptive Psychology

• Authors: Curvello Flávio Vieira
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

mereology; unity of consciousness; inner perception; descriptive psychology; genetic psychology; epistemology of psychology

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 109-123

Contributors

author

Curvello Flávio Vieira

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais. Largo São Francisco de Paula, n. 1, sala 310. Centro, 20051070 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil