Brentano, Franz

(b. 1838, Germany, d. 1917, Zürich, Switzerland, Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Tübingen, 1862). He is known especially for his distinction between psychological and physical phenomena on the basis of intentionality or internal object-directedness of thought, and his revival of Aristotelianism and empirical methods in philosophy and psychology.
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