Volume 46 (1991), 3-4

The paper gives a brief summary of several previous studies on the history of the Austrian philosophy. The ground thesis deffended here is, that there is a genetic explanation of the specific philosophical development on the territory of the old Danube monarchy which makes the origin of the Vienna Circle more easily understood than the other explanations do. From… Read more

The paper examines an old controversy between deductionism and inductionism. Verification and falsification are mutually dependent. However, especially in empirical sciences there can be no falsification without verification. According to both conceptions, the scientific theories are only hypothetical, based on assumptions, and probable. At the same time, it is… Read more

The early Brentano identifies intentionality with „intentional inexistence“, i. e., with a kind of indwelling of the intentional object in the mind. The latter concept cannot be grasped apart from its scholastic background and the Aristotelian-Thomistic doctrine of the multiple use of .being’ (to on legetai pollachos). The fact that Brentano abandoned the… Read more

Brentanos’ three basic theses — that of the primacy of scientific method, that of the intentional reference to the object without a constitutional judgement and, besides, without being bound to the temporal background of Lebenswelt, and finally that of the diminution of the primacy of practice are no more limited to phenomenology alone: They raise the… Read more