L’auteur esquisse une présentation de la théorie reinachienne des diverses modalités de l’intentionalité. Il se concentre sur celle que Reinach nomme « meinen ». Il montre comment celle-ci dérive de la phénoménologie husserlienne du signifier , mais aussi comment les deux concepts divergent. Il insiste sur l’originalité du concept reinachien de « penser » , qui est élaboré précisément dans le contexte de la phénoménologie du meinen et qui porte la théorie phénoménologique de l’intentionalité à ses propres limites.The author gives (...) a sketch of Reinach’s theory of the various modalities of intentionality. He focuses on the one that Reinach calls « meaning » . He shows how it stems from the Husserlian phenomenology of Bedeuten, but also how far both diverge. He stresses the originality of Reinach’s concept of « thinking » , which is devised in the context of the phenomenology of Meinen and which takes the phenomenological theory of intentionality to its own limitations. (shrink)

Reinach’s essay of 1911 establishes an ontological theory of logic, based on the notion of Sachverhalt or state of affairs. He draws on the theory of meaning and reference advanced in Husserl’s Logical Investigations and at the same time anticipates both Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and later speech act theorists’ ideas on performative utterances. The theory is used by Reinach to draw a distinction between two kinds of negative judgment: the simple negative judgment, which is made true by a negative state of (...) affairs; and the polemical negative judgment, which is a performative utterance in which the truth of some earlier judgment – typically a judgment made by some other person – is denied. (shrink)

In the 1890's, when fields such as psychology and philosophy were just emerging, turf wars between the disciplines were common-place. Philosophers widely discounted the possibility that psychology's claim to empirical truth had anything relevant to offer their field. And psychologists, such as the crazed and eccentric Otto Weinegger, often considered themselves philosophers. Freud, it is held, was deeply influenced by his wife, Martha's, uncle, who was also a philosopher. The tension between the fields persisted, until the two fields eventually matured (...) and grew apart. Until the publication of Martin Kursch's masterly work Psychologism , few philosophers and psychologists have attended to their originally unhappy, turn-of-the-century engagement. Martin Kusch explores the origins of psychologism in Germany and fin de siecle Vienna by examining two major figures of twentieth century philosophy: Frege and Husserl. As one of the few serious works on Frege, Kusch trenchantly and clearly reconstructs the debate and the context in which it flourished. Psychologism will prove to be a key work of intellectual history on a subject which has largely been overlooked and, above all, understudied. (shrink)