Brentano and Intrinsic Value

Brentano and Intrinsic Value

Author: Roderick M. Chisholm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-01-29

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780521269896

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A critical exposition of Franz Brentano's theory of intrinsic value.


Intrinsic Value

Intrinsic Value

Author: Noah M. Lemos

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-09-30

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 052146207X

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This book explores the justification of our beliefs about intrinsic value.


Brentano's Philosophical System

Brentano's Philosophical System

Author: Uriah Kriegel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0198791488

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Uriah Kriegel presents a rich exploration of the systematic thought of the great 19th-century philosopher Franz Brentano, and its importance to the subsequent development of philosophy. Kriegel sets out Brentano's unified theories of the true, the good, and the beautiful in an accessible way.


The Nature of Intrinsic Value

The Nature of Intrinsic Value

Author: Michael J. Zimmerman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1461610125

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At the heart of ethics reside the concepts of good and bad; they are at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, an act right or wrong, a decision defensible or indefensible, a goal desirable or undesirable. But there are many varieties of goodness and badness. At their core lie intrinsic goodness and badness, the sort of value that something has for its own sake. It is in virtue of intrinsic value that other types of value may be understood, and hence that we can begin to come to terms with questions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and so on. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: just what it is for something to be valuable for its own sake, just what sort of thing can have such value, just how such a value is to be computed. In the final chapter, the fruits of this investigation are applied to a discussion of pleasure, pain, and displeasure and also of moral virtue and vice, in order to determine just what value lies within these phenomena.


Aspects of Psychologism

Aspects of Psychologism

Author: Tim Crane

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0674726588

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Aspects of Psychologism is a penetrating look into fundamental philosophical questions of consciousness, perception, and the experience we have of our mental lives. Psychologism, in Tim Crane's formulation, presents the mind as a single subject-matter to be investigated not only empirically and conceptually but also phenomenologically: through the systematic examination of consciousness and thought from the subject's point of view. How should we think about the mind? Analytical philosophy tends to address this question by examining the language we use to talk about our minds, and thus translates our knowledge of consciousness into knowledge of the concepts which this language embodies. Psychologism rejects this approach. The philosophy of mind, Crane contends, has become too narrow in its purely conceptual focus on the logical and linguistic formulas that structure thought. We cannot assume that the categories needed to understand the mind correspond absolutely with such semantic categories. Crane's claim is that intentionality--the "aboutness" or "directedness" of the mind--is essential to all mental phenomena. He criticizes materialist doctrines about consciousness and defends the position that perception can represent the world in a non-conceptual, non-propositional way, opening up philosophy to a more realistic account of the mind's nature.


The Theory and Practice of Ontology

The Theory and Practice of Ontology

Author: Leo Zaibert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1137552786

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This book provides close examination of ontology and the work of Professor Barry Smith, one of the most prolific philosophers of the modern day. In this book numerous scholars who have collaborated with Smith explore the various disciplines in which the impact of his work has been felt over the breadth of his career, including biology, computer science and informatics, cognitive science, economics, genetics, geography, law, neurology, and philosophy itself. While offering in-depth perspectives on ontology, the book also expands upon the breadth of Smith’s influence. With insights from renowned and influential scholars from many different countries, this book is an informative and enlightening celebration of all Smith has contributed to numerous academic schools of thought.


Descriptive Psychology

Descriptive Psychology

Author: Franz Brentano

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1134840535

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Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought. It was his work that set Husserl on to the road of phenomenology and intentionality, that inspired Meinong's theory of the object which influenced Bertrand Russell, and the entire Polish school of philosophy. ^Descriptive Psychology presents a series of lectures given by Brentano in 1887; they were the culmination of his work, and the clearest statement of his mature thought. It was this later period which proved to be so important in the work of his student, Husserl. This is the first English translation of his work. Benito Muller has added a concise introduction which places Brentano within the history of philosophy and psychology, and locates his influence in contemporary thought.