Descriptive psychology and natural sciences

Husserl's early criticism of Brentano

Denis Fisette

pp. 221-253

in: Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jacobs, Filip Mattens (eds), Philosophy, phenomenology, sciences, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

In defining his phenomenology as descriptive psychology in the introduction to the first edition of his Logical Investigations ¹, Husserl suggests that the field study of his phenomenology as his methodology are very close to that of Brentano's psychology, and that the research in the book somehow contributes to Brentano's philosophical program, one of whose main axes is psychology or philosophy of mind.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Brentano Franz