By Carlo Ierna In my previous post I asked whether we could see the approach in the School of Brentano as some kind of cognitive science and whether it could contribute something interesting to current discussions. Why should a 19th century position have anything to contribute to current debates? First of all, it needs to…

Last time I mentioned that Brentano was developing a “science of consciousness” and promised I would explain. Brentano’s claim that the true method of philosophy would be that of the natural sciences was not a throwaway remark or provocative soundbite, but seriously meant as the starting point of an encompassing research program and as a…

By Carlo Ierna While writing my MA thesis, I still thought that Husserl was developing an original application of Brentano’s method to a new area. The mainstream interpretation generally considered Husserl’s early works as an innovative combination of his mathematical background (after studying mathematics in Berlin he did his dissertation on the calculus of variations…

By Carlo Ierna First of all, I’d like to thank Marcus Arvan for this wonderful opportunity to present and discuss my research on the Philosopher’s Cocoon. I think I might be stretching the definition of “Early Career Researcher” a bit, but since I am still an untenured postdoc, I guess it is fitting enough. Thematically…