1. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy 7
2. Philosophy and Politics 10
3. The Neurath-Haller Thesis 14
4. The School of Franz Brentano 20
5. Brentano's Philosophy: A Preliminary Outline
31
Franz Brentano I: On Mind and Its Objects 37
1. Intentionality 37
2. The Psychology of Aristotle 38
3. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint 44
4. The Unity of the Soul 47
5. From Psychology to Ontology 54
Franz Brentano II: On Substance and Accident 64
1. Brentano's Metaphysics 64
2. Mutual and One-Sided Separability 66
3. Aristotle on Separability 68
4. Brentano on Separability 71
5. Mereological Potentialism vs. Mereological Actualism
79
6. Places and Times 83
Anton Marty: On Being and Truth 87
1. Brentano and Marty 87
2. Stumpf, Cantor and the Doctrine of Immanence
91
3. Bases and Operations 96
4. Collectives and Relations 101
5. Space 106
6. States of Affairs 108
7. A Correspondence Theory of Intentionality
113
8. The Martian Theory of Truth 118
9. On Value-Contents, Fictions and Linguistic Form
123
Alexius Meinong and Stephan Witasek: On Art and Its Objects
130
1. Meinong and the Problem of Non-Veridical Intentionality
130
2. The Phantasy Modification 134
3. The Marks of Phantasy Phenomena 136
4. The Aesthetics of the Graz School 140
5. Aesthetic Pleasure 146
6. Art and Illusion 148
7. Gestalt and Expression 152
8. Empathy and Sympathy 154
9. Musical Presentations 156
Kasimir Twardowski: On Content and Object 160
1. Twardowski and Polish Philosophy 160
2. On the Absolute Theory of Truth 165
3. The Theory of the General Object 168
4. Sachverhalt vs. Judgment-Content: Immanence and
Idealism 178
5. Process and Product 182
6. From Psychology to Logic 193
Tadeusz Kotarbinski: On Things and their Phases 201
1. The Development of Reism 201
2. Reism and Truth 209
3. Kotarbinskian Psychology 214
4. The Aristotelian Concept of Thing 220
5. Time and Tense 227
6. In Defence of a Bicategorial Ontology 236
7. Kotarbinski and Brentano 240
8. The Varieties of Reism 250
Christian von Ehrenfels I: On the Theory of Gestalt 255
1. The Theory of Gestalt Qualities 255
2. Husserl, Meinong, Stumpf 262
3. The Graz Production Theory 270
4. The Berlin School 273
5. On the Parsing of Ontological Structure 283
6. Conclusion 292
Christian von Ehrenfels II: On Value and Desire 295
1. Foundations of a General Theory of Value 295
2. The Relation between Desire and Feeling 297
3. The Objects of Desire 299
4. On the Nature of Values 301
5. The Struggle for Existence among Values 306
Carl Menger: On Austrian Philosophy and Austrian Economics
313
1. The Intellectual Background of Austrian Economics
313
2. A Priori and Analytic Truths 319
3. Linguistics and Economics 325
4. Ludwig von Mises and the Synthetic A Priori
328
5. Two Kinds of Subjectivism 332
6. Austrian Aristotelianism 335
7. Aristotelianism in the Social Sciences 341
8. Fallibilistic Apriorism 345