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- Title
Experiencing the a priori.
- Authors
Seron, Denis
- Abstract
Brentano clearly asserts, in his Vienna lectures of 1887–1888, that his descriptive psychology is an a priori or "exact" science. Since he rejects Kant's idea of a synthetic a priori, this means that the descriptive psychologist's laws are analytic. My aim in this paper is to clarify and discuss this view. I examine Brentano's epistemology in the Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint and then its later developments. I conclude with a difficulty inherent in Brentano's psychological approach to a priori knowledge.
- Subjects
DESCRIPTIVE psychology; PSYCHOLOGY From an Empirical Standpoint (Book); BRENTANO, Franz Clemens, 1838-1917; THEORY of knowledge; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804
- Publication
European Journal of Philosophy, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 2, p371
- ISSN
0966-8373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ejop.12687