biography
pronunciation:
[brentahnoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1838–1917)
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| biography:
| Psychologist and philosopher, born in Marienberg, E Germany, the brother of Lujo Brentano. He became a Catholic priest (1864), and taught philosophy at Würzburg until 1873. He then abandoned the priesthood, and moved to teach at Vienna until his retirement (1895). In his most important work, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (1874, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint), he developed the doctrine of ‘intentionality’, characterizing mental events as involving the ‘direction of the mind to an object’. |
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