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Brentano, F. (1862) Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder; repr. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1960; trans. and ed.
R.
George, On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. (Brentano’s Berlin doctoral dissertation: a catalogue of the ways Aristotle says something may be said to be; includes a classification and justification of the categories.) |
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Brentano, F. (1874) Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte, Leipzig: Duncker && Humblot; 2nd edn, ed.
O.
Kraus,
Leipzig: Meiner, 1924; repr. Hamburg: Meiner, 1973; trans.
A.C.
Rancurello, D.B.
Terrell and L.L.
McAlister and ed.
L.L.
McAlister,
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, London, Routledge, 1969; 2nd edn, 1995. (Brentano’s best-known and most influential work, though incomplete. Contains a defence of psychology as an autonomous discipline, the famous delimitation of its subject matter, mental phenomena, via intentional existence, and a threefold classification of mental phenomena into ideas, judgments, and phenomena of love and hate (interests), which include both feeling and will.) |
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Brentano, F. (1889) Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot; 4th edn, ed.
O.
Kraus,
Hamburg: Meiner, 1955; trans.
R.M.
Chisholm and E.H.
Schneewind,
The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong, London: Routledge, 1969. (Brentano’s ethics in a small compass, based on a theory of intrinsic value defined in terms of correct interests and preferences, supplemented by a utilitarian account of instrumental value.) |
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Brentano, F. (1926) Die vier Phasen der Philosophie und ihr augenblicklicher Stand (The Four Phases of Philosophy and Its Present Status), Leipzig: Meiner; repr. Hamburg: Meiner, 1968. (Brentano’s theory of the cyclical rise and decline of philosophy.) |
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Brentano, F. (1929) Vom Dasein Gottes, ed.
A.
Kastil, Leipzig: Meiner; repr. Hamburg: Meiner, 1968; trans.
S.
Krantz, On the Existence of God, Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1987. (Posthumously published treatise setting out Brentano’s probabilistic proof for the existence of God.) |
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Brentano, F. (1930) Wahrheit und Evidenz, ed.
O.
Kraus, Leipzig: Meiner; repr. Hamburg: Meiner, 1974; trans.
R.M.
Chisholm, I.
Politzer and K.R.
Fischer, and ed.
R.M.
Chisholm, The True and the Evident, London: Routledge, 1966. (A chronologically arranged series of writings on truth, beginning with Brentano’s somewhat half-hearted espousal of a correspondence theory and ending with its rejection in favour of the view that a true (correct) judgment is one which someone judging with evidence would accept.) |
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Brentano, F. (1933) Kategorienlehre, ed.
A.
Kastil, Leipzig: Meiner; repr. Hamburg: Meiner, 1974; trans.
R.M.
Chisholm and N.
Guterman, The Theory of Categories, Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1981. (A miscellaneous collection of late writings on categories and ontology, setting out Brentano’s opposition to Aristotle and his economical ontology of reism. Discusses meanings of ‘be’, substance and accident, relations and linguistic fictions.) |
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Brentano, F. (1952) Grundlegung und Aufbau der Ethik, Hamburg: Meiner; ed.
F.
Mayer-Hillebrand, trans.
E.H.
Schneewind, The Foundation and Construction of Ethics, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. (Compiled from the notes Brentano made for his enormously popular lectures on practical philosophy in Vienna, 1876–94.) |
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Brentano, F. (1976) Philosophische Untersuchungen zu Raum, Zeit und Kontinuum, selected from the unpublished papers by A. Kastil, ed.
S.
Körner and R.M.
Chisholm, Hamburg: Meiner; trans.
B.
Smith, Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time, and the Continuum, London: Croom Helm, 1988. (Subject matter as the title describes: contains Brentano’s account of time-consciousness, his anti-Cantorian theory of the continuum and his unorthodox views on boundaries.) |
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Brentano, F. (1982) Deskriptive Psychologie, ed.
R.M.
Chisholm and W.
Baumgartner, Hamburg: Meiner; trans.
B.
Müller, Descriptive Psychology, London: Routledge, 1995. (Edited from Vienna lecture notes: psychology from Brentano’s influential middle period, when he had distinguished descriptive psychology (phenomenology) from genetic psychology.) |