A wager on the future

pp. 335-340

in: Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent realism, Berlin, Springer, 2006

Abstract

To conclude, I would like to summarize my personal point of view on Brentano. Why should a contemporary scholar – and especially a scientist – undertake such painstaking analyses as those offered by Brentano and embark on such an internal anabasis on his or her own experience, constantly conducted on the boundary between inner and outer, or try to disentangle such a maze of conceptual architecture? Most of all, is Brentano's main endeavour to reconstruct reality starting from inner experience a practicable one?