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Book SynopsisTextor reveals the roots of analytic philosophy in a great age of Austro-German philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He introduces Brentano, Mach, and other key figures, and traces the development of the landmark ideas that there can be 'psychology without a soul', and that metaphysics lies beyond the limits of knowledge.
Trade ReviewMark Textor has written a fascinating book about the vanishing of a classical concept in philosophy:the soul...defnitely worth reading. * María de Paz, Metascience *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements The Players Introduction Part I: The Evaporation of the Soul- and other Substances 1: Psychology, the Science of the Soul 2: 'Psychology without a Soul' 3: From Substance and Accident to Complex and Element Part II: Managing without the Soul: Intentionality, Dualism, and Neutral Monism 4: The Mental and the Physical, Only A Matter of Perspective? 5: The Mental and the Physical, an Intrinsic Distinction 6: The Intentionality Challenge Part III: From Psychology without a Soul to Psychology with a Self and Beyond: The Anglo-Austro-German Axis 1886-1921 Introduction to Part III: 'Shocked and Disappointed' 7: Cambridge Psychology between Lotze and Brentano 8: The Rise and Fall of the Subject: A Case Study 9: Act/Content/Object, Act/Object, or Just Object? Part IV: Intuition, Metaphysics and the Limits of Knowledge Introduction to Part IV 10: Brentano's One-Term View of Judgement 11: Judgement in the Service of the Will - Voluntaristic Conceptions of Judgement 12: The Nature of Knowledge: Avenarius and Schlick 13: Drawing the Limits of Knowledge 14: Beyond the Limits of Knowledge
