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.

"Considering the many issues addressed in the papers of the book and the important unpublished materials yield now accessible, the project edited by Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli is an essential instrument of research in this field. ... In the wake of the book Carl Stumpf – From Philosophical Reflection to Interdisciplinary Scientific Investigation (Krammer 2011), this book represents a further and decisive step in recognising the significance of Stumpf in the philosophical-psychological thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."Gemmo Iocco, in Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (issue 4), 2016."Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli have put together the most comprehensive, ambitious, and engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) to date. The volume is impressive in both scope and depth. ... Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint is a landmark publication. It will have a long-lasting impact on the history of early twentieth century European philosophy and its ramifications up to our present.” Andrea Staiti, in The Philosophical Quarterly"Bien plus qu’une hypothétique reconstruction synthétique de l’oeuvre de Stumpf, Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf offre au lecteur un approfondissement des thèmes centraux de sa philosophie qui permet de penser la place de cette figure emblématique dans la philosophie allemande du xxe siècle."Maxime Julien, in Philosophiques, 42, (issue 2), 2015."The general picture that emerges from this successful volume is that Stumpf was indeed a philosopher, not “just” an experimental psychologist treating of “matter of facts” in acoustics. ... Thanks to Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli’s precious book, Stumpf’s position in the “scientific classifications” (Einteilung der Wissenschaften) will be considered anew."Hamid Taieb, in Brentano Studien, Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 14 (2016)

• TABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACETHE RECEPTION AND ACTUALITY OF CARL STUMPF. AN INTRODUCTIONDenis FisetteI.HISTORICAL SOURCESIntroductionRiccardo MartinelliThe young Carl Stumpf. His spiritual, intellectual, and professional developmentWilhelm BaumgartnerPractical Epistemology: Stumpf’s Halle Logic (1887)Robin D. RollingerCarl Stumpf’s Debt to Hermann LotzeNikolay MilkovStumpf und die Monadologie der HerbartianerStefano PoggiII.THEMESIntroductionRiccardo MartinelliCarl Stumpf’s Philosophy of MathematicsCarlo IernaCarl Stumpf über SachverhalteArkadiusz ChrudzimskiStumpf on CategoriesRiccardo MartinelliThe Autonomy of the Sensible and the De-subjectification of the a priori by StumpfDominique PradelleStumpf on AbstractionGuillaume FréchetteÄsthetik als praktische Philosophie: Zur impliziten Ästhetik von Carl StumpfChristian G. AlleschIII.INFLUENCESIntroductionRiccardo MartinelliA Phenomenology without Phenomena? Carl Stumpf’s Critical Remarks on Husserl’s PhenomenologyDenis FisetteStumpf’s (Early) Insights and Marty’s Way to His (Later) SprachphilosophieLaurent CesalliOn Stumpf and SchlickFiorenza ToccafondiLove, Emotions and Passion in Musil’s Novellas “Unions” in the light of Stumpf’s Theory of FeelingsSilvia BonacchiIV.ARCHIVALIAIntroductionDenis FisetteIntroduction to Stumpf’s Lecture on MetaphysicsDenis FisetteMetaphysik. Vorlesung, Carl StumpfEdited by Robin RollingerIntroduction to Carl Stumpf’s Correspondence with Franz BrentanoDenis FisetteStumpf’s “Einleitung zu Brentanos Briefen an mich,” followed by selected letters from Brentano and StumpfCarl Stumpf and Franz BrentanoEdited by Guillaume FréchetteBibliography of Carl Stumpf’s Publications / Bibliographie der Schriften von Carl StumpfDenis FisetteINDEX OF NAMES