Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf

Denis Fisette is professor in the department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Two of his main research fields are the history of Austrian and German philosophy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and contemporary philosophy of mind. He has published extensively on the philosophy of Brentano and his successors, and namely on Carl Stumpf and Husserl’s phenomenology. Riccardo Martinelli, Ph. D. (1995) is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Trieste, Italy. He has published several essays on the School of Brentano and on Carl Stumpf, whose writings he also translated into italian.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

THE RECEPTION AND ACTUALITY
OF CARL STUMPF. AN INTRODUCTION
Denis Fisette

I.HISTORICAL SOURCES
Introduction
Riccardo Martinelli

The young Carl Stumpf. His spiritual, intellectual,
and professional development
Wilhelm Baumgartner

Practical Epistemology: Stumpf’s Halle Logic (1887)
Robin D. Rollinger

Carl Stumpf’s Debt to Hermann Lotze
Nikolay Milkov

Stumpf und die Monadologie der Herbartianer
Stefano Poggi

II.THEMES
Introduction
Riccardo Martinelli

Carl Stumpf’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Carlo Ierna

Carl Stumpf über Sachverhalte
Arkadiusz Chrudzimski

Stumpf on Categories
Riccardo Martinelli

The Autonomy of the Sensible and the De-subjectification of the a priori by Stumpf
Dominique Pradelle

Stumpf on Abstraction
Guillaume Fréchette

Ästhetik als praktische Philosophie: Zur impliziten Ästhetik von Carl Stumpf
Christian G. Allesch

III.INFLUENCES
Introduction
Riccardo Martinelli

A Phenomenology without Phenomena? Carl Stumpf’s Critical Remarks on Husserl’s Phenomenology
Denis Fisette

Stumpf’s (Early) Insights and Marty’s Way to His (Later) Sprachphilosophie
Laurent Cesalli

On Stumpf and Schlick
Fiorenza Toccafondi

Love, Emotions and Passion in Musil’s Novellas “Unions” in the light of Stumpf’s Theory of Feelings
Silvia Bonacchi

IV.ARCHIVALIA
Introduction
Denis Fisette

Introduction to Stumpf’s Lecture on Metaphysics
Denis Fisette

Metaphysik. Vorlesung, Carl Stumpf
Edited by Robin Rollinger

Introduction to Carl Stumpf’s Correspondence with Franz Brentano
Denis Fisette

Stumpf’s “Einleitung zu Brentanos Briefen an mich,” followed by selected letters from Brentano and Stumpf
Carl Stumpf and Franz Brentano
Edited by Guillaume Fréchette

Bibliography of Carl Stumpf’s Publications / Bibliographie der Schriften von Carl Stumpf
Denis Fisette

INDEX OF NAMES