Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
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Title page of the first edition
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| Author | Franz Brentano |
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| Original title | Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte |
| Translator | Antos C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell, Linda L. McAlister |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Psychology |
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| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 350 (first edition) 415 (2005 Routledge edition) |
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Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (German: Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) (1874; second edition 1924) is an 1874 book by the Austrian philosopher Franz Brentano, in which Brentano argues that the goal of psychology should be to establish exact laws. Brentano's best known book, it established his reputation as a philosopher, helped to establish psychology as a scientific discipline, and influenced developments such as Husserlian phenomenology, analytic philosophy, gestalt psychology, and Alexius Meinong's theory of objects. It has been called Brentano's greatest work, and compared to Wilhelm Wundt's Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie and Sigmund Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology. However, the results that Brentano produces from his method in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint have been described as "deadly dull and nearly vacuous."
Brentano was at work on Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint in 1873, while travelling in Europe after leaving the Roman Catholic Church and resigning from his position at the University of Würzburg. He completed the first two books of the work in March 1874. Brentano originally intended to produce a large work consisting of six books, the first five of which would cover psychology as a science, mental phenomena in general, and their three basic classes, while the sixth would deal with the mind-body problem, the soul, and immortality. However, Brentano was ill with smallpox after publishing the first two books. The work remained incomplete. In 1911, Brentano published book two of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint under the new title Von der Klassifikation der psychischen Phänomene, with the addition of remarks explaining his later views, where they differed from those he held in 1874.
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint was first published as Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte, but subsequent editions were published as Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt, which is the more commonly cited name. The first edition was designated Volume 1, but this was also abandoned in later editions. In 1924, after Brentano's death, the book was published in a new edition, which included explanatory notes by Oskar Kraus.
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