BRENTANO ON SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY AND POSITIVISM

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Epistemology, Positivism, Natural sciences, Human sciences, Psychology

Abstract

In this paper, I analyze Brentano’s fourth habilitation thesis, according to which philosophical method should be none other than the natural scientific one. The meaning of this thesis can be initially assessed through an examination of Brentano’s views on the relationship between natural and human sciences. His arguments for methodological unity in this debate show that he actually argues for an overarching idea of scientific knowledge, which is not restricted to the fields already recognized as scientific, but which can also be applied to philosophical domain. A fuller comprehension of that idea is provided by Brentano’s writings on Comte’s positivism.

 

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Flávio Vieira Curvello, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Graduado em Psicologia e em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Mestre em Psicologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia (PPGP) da mesma instituição. Doutor em Filosofia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia (PPGF) da mesma instituição. Foi Gastwissenschaftler do Husserl-Archiv da Universität zu Köln sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Dieter Lohmar, tendo sido fomentado pelo DAAD. É atualmente membro da gPhen - International Network Genetic Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, também vinculada ao Husserl-Archiv. Entre seus temas de pesquisa encontram-se: Fenomenologia (com ênfase em Edmund Husserl); a Escola de Brentano (com ênfase no próprio Brentano); Psicologia da Percepção (com ênfase na Gestalttheorie); História da Psicologia; História da Filosofia; Teoria do Conhecimento. É presentemente professor substituto de Filosofia para Psicologia junto ao Departamento de Psicologia Geral e Experimental da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e professor horista junto à Universidade Estácio de Sá.

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2021-12-07

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CURVELLO, F. V. BRENTANO ON SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY AND POSITIVISM. Revista Kriterion, [S. l.], v. 62, n. 150, 2021. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/24680. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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