Brentano school
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The Brentano school was a philosophical movement of late 19th- and early 20th-century thinkers influenced by Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology and theory of intentionality, which significantly shaped phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
All labels observed (4)
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| Brentano school canonical | 8 |
| Brentano and Meinong Studies | 1 |
| Brentano school of psychology | 1 |
| Franz Brentano school | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Brentano school Context triple: [Franz Brentano, movement, Brentano school]
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Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
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Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano was a 19th-century Austrian philosopher and psychologist best known for reviving the concept of intentionality and profoundly influencing early phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
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Neo-scholasticism
Neo-scholasticism is a modern revival and systematic development of medieval scholastic philosophy and theology, especially associated with the renewed study of Thomas Aquinas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Würzburg School
The Würzburg School was an early 20th-century psychological research group known for its experimental studies of thought processes and higher cognition, challenging the then-dominant introspectionist and associationist views.
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Freiburg School
The Freiburg School was a group of German economists and legal scholars in the early 20th century that developed ordoliberalism, advocating a strong legal framework to ensure competitive markets and prevent economic power concentration.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Brentano school Target entity description: The Brentano school was a philosophical movement of late 19th- and early 20th-century thinkers influenced by Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology and theory of intentionality, which significantly shaped phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
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A.
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
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Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano was a 19th-century Austrian philosopher and psychologist best known for reviving the concept of intentionality and profoundly influencing early phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
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C.
Neo-scholasticism
Neo-scholasticism is a modern revival and systematic development of medieval scholastic philosophy and theology, especially associated with the renewed study of Thomas Aquinas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
Würzburg School
The Würzburg School was an early 20th-century psychological research group known for its experimental studies of thought processes and higher cognition, challenging the then-dominant introspectionist and associationist views.
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E.
Freiburg School
The Freiburg School was a group of German economists and legal scholars in the early 20th century that developed ordoliberalism, advocating a strong legal framework to ensure competitive markets and prevent economic power concentration.
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Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philosophical movement
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school of thought ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Austrian School of Philosophy
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linked to:
Austrian School of economics
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| coreConcept |
descriptive psychology as a foundational science
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immanent object of consciousness ⓘ intentionality of mental acts ⓘ internal perception ⓘ presentation, judgment, and emotion as basic mental acts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Austria-Hungary
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linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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| emphasizes |
logical and linguistic analysis of mental acts
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rigorous description of conscious experience ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alexius Meinong
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Alois Höfler ⓘ Anton Marty ⓘ Carl Stumpf ⓘ Christian von Ehrenfels ⓘ Edmund Husserl ⓘ Franz Brentano ⓘ Gottlob Twardowski ⓘ
linked to:
Alexius Meinong
Hugo Bergmann ⓘ Jan Łukasiewicz ⓘ Johannes Daubert ⓘ Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz ⓘ Kazimierz Twardowski ⓘ Oskar Kraus ⓘ Roderick Chisholm ⓘ Roman Ingarden ⓘ Stanisław Leśniewski ⓘ Tadeusz Kotarbiński ⓘ Thomas Masaryk ⓘ
linked to:
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
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| influenced |
Austrian analytic philosophy
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Gestalt psychology ⓘ Graz school ⓘ Lvov–Warsaw school ⓘ Munich phenomenology ⓘ analytic philosophy ⓘ early Husserlian phenomenology ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ theories of judgment in analytic philosophy ⓘ theories of value and emotion in phenomenology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Franz Brentano ⓘ |
| location |
Lviv
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linked to:
Lviv, Ukraine
Munich ⓘ Prague ⓘ Vienna ⓘ Würzburg ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
descriptive psychology
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theory of intentionality ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach |
anti-psychologism in logic (via successors)
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descriptive analysis of mental phenomena ⓘ |
| movementPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Franz Brentano ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
psychologism in logic
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substance-based metaphysics of the soul ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Austrian philosophy
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analytic tradition ⓘ phenomenological tradition ⓘ |
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