The German philosopher and psychologist Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) is best known for his work in establishing psychology as an independent science. Franz Brentano was born on Jan. 16, 1838, at Marienberg in the Rhineland into a family of the...

In 1998 The Brentano Puzzle, edited by Roberto Poli, was published. This collection, the proceedings of a conference by the same name, posed the question of Franz Brentano's importance to philosophy. Yet, the idea behind the conference was to work...

. 1839–1917. Born near Boppard (Germany) he worked mainly in Würzburg and Vienna and retired to Florence. He was a Catholic priest for a short period. He is particularly remembered for his claim that mental phenomena can be identified as...

Brentano, Franz(1838–1917) Franz Brentano, a German philosopher and psychologist, was the nephew of the poet Clemens Brentano and of the author Bettina von Arnim. He taught at Würzburg and at the University of Vienna. As a teacher he...

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838, Marienberg am Rhein, near Boppard – March 17, 1917, Zürich) was an influential figure in both philosophy and psychology. His influence was felt by other figures such as Alexius Meinong,...

THE SUBJECT OF THIS MEMOIR was one of America's most original scholar-teachers in the humanities. A medievalist historian of rare brilliance and modesty, Robert Brentano wrote six books and many articles, and he was in his fifty-first year of teaching in the University of...

Phaenomenologica Series 159. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. vi + 290 pp. Cloth, $97.00--In 1874, with the publication of the first edition of Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt, Franz Brentano made important advances in the philosophy of mind, while at the same time opening...