Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano

380 Pages·2006·1.1 MB·English

by  Liliana Albertazzi

IMMANENTREALISM
SYNTHESE LIBRARY
STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY,
LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHYOF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief:
VINCENTF. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors:
DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
TEDDYSEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
JAN WOLEN´SKI,Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 333
IMMANENT REALISM
AN INTRODUCTION TO BRENTANO
by
LILIANAALBERTAZZI
Trento University, Rovereto Branch, Italy
and
Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy
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To Bruno Giordano Albertazzi, my father
For his independence, consistency and imagination
In memoriam
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Terminological note xi
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1. A LIFE, A NOVEL 5
CHAPTER 2. BRENTANO AND ARISTOTLE 43
CHAPTER 3. PSYCHOLOGY FROM AN EMPIRICAL
STANDPOINT 83
CHAPTER 4. METAPHYSICS AND THE SCIENCE
OF THE SOUL 123
CHAPTER 5. A WOODWORM IN THE INTENTIONAL
RELATION 155
CHAPTER 6. FICCIONES 189
CHAPTER 7. CONTINUA 233
CHAPTER 8. REVERSE ARISTOTELIANISM:
METAPHYSICS OF ACCIDENTS 269
CHAPTER 9. OTHER WRITINGS: ETHICS, AESTHETICS
AND HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 295
CHAPTER 10. A HISTORY OF BRENTANO CRITICISM 313
CHAPTER 11. A WAGER ON THE FUTURE 335
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 341
REFERENCES 355
INDEX OF NAMES 373
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Acknowledgements
I wish to express my thanks to J. Jan Koenderink, Osvaldo da Pos, Lia
Formigari, Edgar Morscher, and Roberto Poli for their comments and criti-
cism. Their patience with my questions and their care for my work have been
truly invaluable. I would also gratefully mention the atmosphere of the Mit-
teleuropa Foundation, at which many chapters of the book have been
conceived and written, while thinking of the future development of Franz
Brentano’s ideas in cognitive science research.
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Terminological note
There follows a list of some choices made in regard to the English transla-
tion of Brentano’s terminology. The choices have been made on theoretical
grounds and they sometimes do not correspond to the currently available
English translations of Brentano’s texts. In the case of quotations, if I have
made changes to the already-existing translation, I have said so in the
footnotes.
I have translated Intentionale Inexistenz as ‘intentional in/existence’, using
the typological device to emphasise the Latin aspect of inhabitatio in the men-
tal existence of psychic phenomena, while I have used ‘inherence’ for
Einwohnen.
I have translated Seele as ‘psyche’, thereby respecting its Aristotelian ori-
gin, and preferring it to ‘mind’.
Appearance has been preserved to denote ‘physical’ phenomena.
Vorstellung has been translated as ‘presentation’, indicating the act or the
psychic phenomenon. Its meaning is clearly distinguished from that of
Darstellung (representation); in fact, the German prepositions vor and dar
refer to different spatial relationships, from the exterior to the interior and vice
versa. Specifically, the concept of Vorstellung refers to the concrete act of pre-
sentation here and now in the time of presentness. The concept of Darstellung,
vice versa, is related both to the concept of representance (Stellvertretung) that
is, the function of symbolising objects and states of affairs which in particular
characterises the representative function of language (Darstellungsfunktion
der Sprache) and to the concept of communication(Mittheilung).
I translate intentionale Beziehung as ‘intentional reference’ rather than as
‘intentional relation’, in order to emphasise the ontological character of psy-
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chic reference to things by acts. I have used ‘relation’ (Relation) for other
cases.
Vielheit has been rendered as ‘multiplicity’, and sometimes as ‘plurality’ if
connected with the etymological meaning of ‘many’, Vielfachheit as ‘being
multiple’, Vielfältigkeit as ‘multiformity’, in order to convey the different
meaning of the entity and the different nature of the continua in Brentano.
As to Brentano’s works, for each of them I first give the German title and
its English translation in brackets. In the case of works translated into English,
their successive quotations bear the English title.
Finally, as far as quotations in Greek language are concerned, given the
variety of accents used in the English translations of Brentano’s works, I have
chosen to use a transliteration of the words without accents.