Mind and Language – On the Philosophy of Anton Marty

Mind and Language – On the Philosophy of Anton Marty
Author: Guillaume Fréchette
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110529785

Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847–Prague, 1914) contributed significantly to some of the central themes of Austrian philosophy. This collection contributes to assessing the specificity of his theses in relation with other Austrian philosophers. Although strongly inspired by his master, Franz Brentano, Marty developed his own theory of intentionality, understood as a sui generis relation of similarity. Moreover, he established a comprehensive philosophy of language, or "semasiology", based on descriptive psychology, and in which the utterer’s meaning plays a central role, anticipating Grice’s pragmatic semantics. The present volume, including sixteen articles by scholars in the field of the history of Austrian philosophy and in contemporary philosophy, aims at exposing some of Marty’s most important contributions in philosophy of mind and language, but also in other fields of research such as ontology and metaphysics. As archive material, the volume contains the edition of a correspondence between Marty and Hans Cornelius on similarity. This book will interest scholars in the fields of the history of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, historians of phenomenology, and, more broadly, contemporary theoretical philosophers.

Anton Marty und Karl Bühler

Anton Marty und Karl Bühler
Author: Laurent Cesalli
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3796533329

Anton Marty und Karl Bühler – zwei Schlüsselfiguren der modernen Sprachphilosophie Anton Marty und Karl Bühler verbinden in ihren wegweisenden Ansätzen über das Verhältnis von Sprache und Denken (sprach-) philosophische, linguistische und psychologische Erkenntnisse. Zu Unrecht sind die beiden grossen Denker bisher im Hintergrund der Forschung geblieben – ihre Positionen werden deshalb in diesem Band eingehend untersucht und ihr Einfluss sowie ihre Beziehung zu anderen Traditionen beleuchtet, so u.a. zur analytischen Philosophie und der kognitiven Pragmatik. In der Forschung der letzten Jahre ist ein wachsendes Interesse für die aus den Werken Bernard Bolzanos und Franz Brentanos entspringende österreichisch-deutsche Philosophie zu verzeichnen. Anton Marty (1847-1914) und Karl Bühler (1879-1963) sind zwei Schlüsselfiguren dieser Tradition. Ihre Beiträge im Gebiet der Philosophie der Sprache, der Psychologie und der Linguistik haben einen tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf die Entwicklung dieser Disziplinen ausgeübt. Trotzdem wurde den beiden Denkern im Vergleich zu Brentano, Husserl oder Wittgenstein in der Forschung bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Im vorliegenden Band werden die Sprachphilosophien der beiden Autoren näher untersucht und ihr Verhältnis zueinander und zu späteren Traditionen – wie die der analytischen Philosophie und der kognitiven Pragmatik – beleuchtet. Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Studien steht die Frage des Verhältnisses von Denken und Sprache, ein Verhältnis, das zugleich den gemeinsamen Nenner und den Scheidepunkt von Martys und Bühlers Denken darstellt. Beide Denker sind sich einig, dass Denken und Sprache aufs Engste verbunden sind. Ihre Meinungen gehen jedoch auseinander, wenn es darum geht, die Rolle der Sprache genauer zu bestimmen. Während Marty die Hauptfunktion der Sprache (die Bedeutung) im Erwecken bestimmter psychischer Phänomene im Anderen sieht, besteht für Bühler das Wesentliche der Sprache in ihrer Darstellungsfunktion, in der objektiven Koordination von Sprachmitteln mit Sachen und Sachverhalten. Aus dem Inhalt Phänomenologische, pragmatische und semiotische Annäherungen an die Sprache Beiträge zur deskriptiven Psychologie Semantische und ontologische Fragen Die empirische Dimension der Sprache

Karl Bühler's Theory of Language/Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie

Karl Bühler's Theory of Language/Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie
Author: Achim Eschbach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027278571

This volume contains selected proceedings of the conferences held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984 devoted to Karl Bühler's Theory of Language. Both conferences took place exactly fifty years after the publication of Bühler's masterpiece. However, it was felt necessary to bring renewed attention to Bühler's work in order to highlight its importance. The contributions in this volume, all in the original German language, focus on a wide range of perspectives: biographical, psychological, sociological, semiotic and linguistic.

Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy

Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy
Author: Denis Fisette
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2020-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030409473

The book discusses Franz Brentano’s impact on Austrian philosophy. It contains both a critical reassessment of Brentano’s place in the development of Austrian philosophy at the turn of the 20th century and a reevaluation of the impact and significance of his philosophy of mind or ‘descriptive psychology’ which was Brentano's most important contribution to contemporary philosophy and to the philosophy in Vienna. In addition, the relation between Brentano, phenomenology, and the Vienna Circle is investigated, together with a related documentation of Brentano's disciple Alfred Kastil (in German). The general part deals with the ongoing discussion of Carnap's "Aufbau" (Vienna Circle Lecture by Alan Chalmers) and the philosophy of mind, with a focus on physicalism as discussed by Carnap and Wittgenstein (Gergely Ambrus). As usual, two reviews of recent publications in the philosophy of mathematics (Paolo Mancosu) and research on Otto Neurath's lifework (Jordi Cat/Adam Tuboly) are included as related research contributions. This book is of interest to students, historians, and philosophers dealing with the history of Austrian and German philosophy in the 19th and 20th century.

Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics

Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
Author: K. Mulligan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 940090505X

Phenomenology was in large part the discovery of Edmund Husserl, whose Logical Investigations of 1900/01 are normally regarded as the work that launched the phenomenological movement. Yet Husserl's phenomenology, in particular in the form in which it is set out in this his most important contribution to philosophy, is itself part of an Austrian philosophical tradi tion inspired by Brentano and continued, in very different ways, by Meinong, Stumpf, Twardowski, Ehrenfels, Husserl - and Marty. Like Brentano and all his heirs Marty's philosophical interests were in the philosophy of mind, where this is taken to include or at least ground the philosophy of language, and analytic metaphysics. It is Marty's discussions of topics in these two areas that provide the contributions to this volume with their subject-matter. The papers by Roderick Chisholm, S.-Y. Kuroda, Barry Smith, Peter Simons, Rosaria Egidi, Karl Schuhmann, Elmar Holenstein, Edgar Morscher, Wolf gang Wenning and myself were presented at the 1984 conference on Anton Marty in Fribourg, Switzerland. Our host in Fribourg was Guido Kung, the conference was made possible by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. I should like to thank both for their help. Geneva, April 1988 KEVIN MULLIGAN Xl Abbreviations Employed in the Text Anton Marty's two major works, the Untersuchungen and the posthumously published Raum und Zeit are referred to in what follows in the following style. U Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der allgemeinen Grammatik und Sprachphilosophie, Vol. I (only volume published). Halle a. S.

Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School

Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School
Author: Arnaud Dewalque
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030522113

This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs, to philosophy of language. Despite the great interest provoked by the Brentanian tradition and its multiple connections with early analytic philosophy, precious little is known about the Brentanian contribution to philosophy of language. The aim of this new collection is to fill this gap by providing the reader with a more thorough understanding of the legacy of Brentano and his school, in their pursuit of a unique research programme according to which the analysis of meaning is inseparable from philosophical inquiries into what goes on in the mind and what there is in the world. In three parts, the volume first reconstructs Brentano’s pathbreaking thoughts on meaning and grammatical illusions, exploring their strong connections with the Austro-German tradition and analytic philosophy. It then addresses the multifaceted debates on the objectivity of meaning in the Brentano School and its aftermath (Meinong, Husserl, Ingarden, Twardowski and the Lvov-Warsaw School). Finally, part three explores Brentano’s wider legacy, namely: Husserl’s theory of modification and typicality, Bühler’s theory of linguistic and non-linguistic expressions, and Wittgenstein’s thoughts on guidance and rule-following. The result is a unique collection of essays which shows the significance, originality and timely character of the Brentanian philosophy of language.

Themes from Brentano

Themes from Brentano
Author: Denis Fisette
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401209936

Franz Brentano’s impact on the philosophy of his time and on 20th-century philosophy is considerable. The “sharp dialectician” (Freud) and “genial master” (Husserl) influenced philosophers of various allegiances, being acknowledged not only as the “grandfather of phenomenology” (Ryle) but also as an analytic philosopher “in the best sense of this term” (Chisholm). The fourteen new essays gathered together in this volume give an insight in three core issues of Brentano’s philosophy: consciousness (sect.1), intentionality (sect. 2) and ontology and metaphysics (sect. 3). Two further sections of the volume deal with the posterity of his philoso¬phy: in section 4, the legacy of his account of sense perception and feeling is discussed, while the history of Brentano’s unpublished manuscripts is discussed in section 5. This section also presents an edition of a manuscript from 1899 on relations, along with the letters from Brentano to Marty which discuss this manuscript. The last part of section 5 contains the text of a public lecture given by Brentano on the laws of inference.

Linguistic Content

Linguistic Content
Author: Margaret Anne Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019873249X

This volume explores the rich history of philosophy of language in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle to the twentieth century. A team of leading experts focus in particular on key metaphysical debates about linguistic content, including questions of ontological status and metaphysical grounding.

Relational Intentionality: Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition

Relational Intentionality: Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition
Author: Hamid Taieb
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-12-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319988875

This book sheds new light on the history of the philosophically crucial notion of intentionality, which accounts for one of the most distinctive aspects of our mental life: the fact that our thoughts are about objects. Intentionality is often described as a certain kind of relation. Focusing on Franz Brentano, who introduced the notion into contemporary philosophy, and on the Aristotelian tradition, which was Brentano’s main source of inspiration, the book reveals a rich history of debate on precisely the relational nature of intentionality. It shows that Brentano and the Aristotelian authors from which he drew not only addressed the question whether intentionality is a relation, but also devoted extensive discussions to what kind of relation it is, if any. The book aims to show that Brentano distinguishes the intentional relation from two other relations with which it might be confused, namely, causality and reference, which also hold between thoughts and their objects. Intentionality accounts for the aboutness of a thought; causality, by contrast, explains how the thought is generated, and reference, understood as a sort of similarity, occurs when the object towards which the thought is directed exists. Brentano claims to find some anticipation of his views in Aristotle. This book argues that, whether or not Brentano’s interpretation of Aristotle is correct, his claim is true of the Aristotelian tradition as a whole, since followers of Aristotle more or less explicitly made some or all of Brentano’s distinctions. This is demonstrated through examination of some major figures of the Aristotelian tradition (broadly understood), including Alexander of Aphrodisias, the Neoplatonic commentators, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Francisco Suárez. This book combines a longue durée approach – focusing on the long-term evolution of philosophical concepts rather than restricting itself to a specific author or period – with systematic analysis in the history of philosophy. By studying Brentano and the Aristotelian authors with theoretical sensitivity, it also aims to contribute to our understanding of intentionality and cognate features of the mind.