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Abstract The paper compares Auguste Comte’s and Franz Brentano’s views on the following issues: the classification of phenomena and of the sciences, the criterion of the fundamental division of phenomena and the change of method implied by it. It is argued that the...

Abstract This paper develops a novel reading of Husserl’s critique of Brentano in Logical Investigations via the fundamental distinction between Brentano’s 1874 project of psychology as a positive, empirical science and his later descriptive psychology. I argue that...

Abstract The paper develops and argues the following theses: (1) Brentano’s theory of the four phases of philosophy was designed independently of Comte’s law of the three stages of thought. (2) Brentano took considerable care to underline the correspondence between...

Before now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the multiple relations between A. Comte’s and J.S. Mill’s positive philosophy and Franz Brentano’s work. The present volume aims to fill this gap and to identify Brentano’s position in the context of the positive...

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, "The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud", Continental Philosophy Review, 2022 Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning...

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, "The Phenomenologist as a Method Actor", in: Thiemo Breyer, Marco Cavallaro, Rodrigo Y. Sandoval (eds.), Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotion, Wbg Academic, 2022 Abstract: The present article departs from several recent papers, which engage...

Sergiu Sava, "Back to Basics: Being and Being Thought in the Phenomenology of Givenness", Hermeneia, Nr. 28, 2022 Abstract: Metaphysics is a controversial figure in the philosophy of the past century. We see it attacked from the perspective of both analytical...

Remus Breazu, "The Aestheticization of Violence in Images", Philosophia, 2022 Abstract The paper aims to give a phenomenological account of the way in which the experience of violence is modified in the aesthetic images. The phenomenological framework in which I place...

Cristian Ciocan, "Phenomenology of Gesture Between Heidegger and Flusser", Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2022 Abstract In this article, I discuss two approaches to the phenomenon of gesture, constituted by the existential dimension of embodiment,...

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, "The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud", Continental Philosophy Review, 2022 Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning...

In the last decades, there has been a far-reaching debate about whether reason is a natural power of the human animal or a socio-historical achievement. This paper brings out and criticizes two paradigmatic views of reason entangled in that dilemma: the substantive...

Collecting goes beyond art collecting and seems to meet a more general need. Although it originally aided survival and has predecessors in the animal world, the gesture of collecting has complex motivations. After exploring the collector's psychology and the...