The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

In this article, I delineate a notion of phenomenology, which differs in many ways from earlier approaches. term understanding apocalyptic the sense that phenomenology discloses not only essences particular things, logical entities, ideas, and transcendental processes, but beyond them, it reveals reality its essential openness to newness. The apocalupsis refers simply unveiling something unknow...

The past century has shown the conversion of a so-called anthropological turn which began with works Franz Brentano, into linguistic (Richard Rorty’s term). philosophy language took place what once had been classical theory cognition. It become either kind epistemology, or analytical philosophy, even general knowledge called in Greece, Germany and Russia gnoseology (from Greek: gnosis - knowled...

The Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels published his essay "On 'Gestalt Qualities'" in 1890. The essay initiated a current of thought which enjoyed a powerful position in the philosophy and psychology of the first half of this century and has more recently enjoyed a minor resurgence of interest in the area of cognitive science, above all in criticisms of the so-called 'strong programm...

The review focuses on Saulius Geniusas’ book, Phenomenology of Pain. In this study, Geniusas develops his own systematic phenomenology the experience pain, based primarily conceptual resources Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. doing so, philosopher formulates and successfully implements original methodological principles “dialogical phenomenology.” Such a consists of, one hand, strict phenomenolo...

The Lvov-Warsaw School (L-WS) was the most important movement in the history of Polish philosophy, and certainly prominent in the general history of philosophy, and 20th century logics and mathematics in particular. It concerns very deep fundamental problems, such as “future contingents”, under a new interpretation. This particular and difficult problem is also connected to Eastern philosophy, ...

One of the distinctive properties of conscious states is the peculiar selfawareness implicit in them. Two rival accounts of this self-awareness are discussed. According to a Neo-Brentanian account, a mental state M is conscious iff M represents its very own occurrence. According to the Higher-Order Monitoring account, M is merely accompanied by a numerically distinct representation of its occur...

1. Substances and Accidents The literature on Brentano of recent times has manifested an unmistakeably deflationary tendency, often presenting Brentano as little more than a forerunner of analytic philosophy, and rarely taking account of more than those few passages in which Brentano talks about something called 'intentionality'. 1 The present paper is an attempt to redress this balance. It see...