{"id":12151,"date":"2009-11-24T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/why-brentano-is-important\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:05:09","slug":"why-brentano-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/why-brentano-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brentano is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If Edmund <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/husserl\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Husserl<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> is the father of phenomenology, Franz Brentano is its grandfather: his <em>Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint<\/em>, along with his lectures at the University of Vienna were powerful influences on the young Husserl who, though a Ph.D. in mathematics (under <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~history\/Mathematicians\/Weierstrass.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Weierstrass<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> on the calculus of variations) abandoned mathematics for philosophy. (2) Brentano&#39;s dissertation under <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Adolf_Trendelenburg\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Trendelenburg<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <em>On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle<\/em>, was a powerful impetus to Heidegger&#39;s ruminations on Being. (3) Brentano, as Gustav Bergmann points out, was &quot;the first linguistic philosopher.&quot; (<em>Realism<\/em>, p. 234) Brentano, then, can be said to stand at the source of both the phenomenological and the analytic streams of thought as they developed in the 20th century.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Edmund Husserl is the father of phenomenology, Franz Brentano is its grandfather: his Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint, along with his lectures at the University of Vienna were powerful influences on the young Husserl who, though a Ph.D. in mathematics (under Weierstrass on the calculus of variations) abandoned mathematics for philosophy. (2) Brentano&#39;s dissertation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/why-brentano-is-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Brentano is Important&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brentano","category-history-of-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}