Beschreibung:
Although an important part of the origins of analytic philosophy can be traced back to philosophy in Austria in the first part of the twentieth century, remarkably little is known about the specific contribution made by Austrian philosophy and philosophers.
Notes on contributors, Introduction, 1 Brentano's concept of intentional inexistence, 2 Reid and Brentano on consciousness, 3 Meinong on memory, 4 Certainty, soil and sediment, 5 Particularised attributes: an Austrian tale, 6 Austrian philosophers on truth, 7 Analyticity and logical truth: from Bolzano to Quine, 8 The great divide within Austrian philosophy: the synthetic a priori, 9 Bolzano's political philosophy, 10 Austrian aesthetics, Name index, Subject index