HPhil Seminar: February 16, 2023

The HPhil (History of Philosophy) Research Group of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon announces the 2022/23 edition of its permanent seminar on the history of philosophy, devoted to the presentation of conferences by renowned specialists while also creating opportunities to emerging scholars, aiming to promote advanced studies in groundbreaking debates and the permanent training of its academic community.

In this session of the seminar, Claudio Majolino (Université de Lille) will present a paper entitled “What is philosophy? On the architectonics of philosophical sciences in Brentano’s lectures on Metaphysics“.

The session will take place on February 16, 2023, at 5PM, in the Room C201.J (Room Mattos Romão, Department of Philosophy). The entrance is free.

Abstract

Much is known about Brentano’s interpretations of Aristotle’s ontology and psychology. And even more is known about his account of intentionality, inner perception and descriptive phenomenology. What is less known, however, is Brentano’s overall conception of philosophy, its parts and its relations to other forms of cognition. Yet it is precisely within such an architectonics of philosophical sciences that the role that Brentano assigns to ontology, psychology in general and phenomenology in particular can be fully understood. In this lecture I will attempt to reconstruct Brentano’s understanding of philosophy from his still unpublished lectures on Metaphysics, delivered in Würzburg between 1867 and 1872.