Guillaume Fréchette
Guillaume Fréchette works on 19th and 20th-century Austro-German philosophy. After a PhD at the University of Hamburg, he spent a few years at UQAM in Montréal as Postdoctoral Fellow doing research on Franz Brentano and his school. He came back to Europe in 2012 to work as a Principal Investigator on two FWF projects in Salzburg on phenomenal intentionality and on Brentano’s descriptive psychology. He also has been collaborateur scientifique on two SNF projects in Geneva on Austro-German philosophy.
He is co-editor of the journal Brentano Studien and of the Primary Sources in Phenomenology series at Springer. He is President of the Internationale Franz Brentano Gesellschaft.
At the University of Lisbon, Guillaume’s research focuses on Franz Brentano’s metaphysics.
E-mail: gfrechette@letras.ulisboa.pt
Selected Publications
Edited books, volumes, special issues
– Brentano’s Descriptive Psychology, Special Issue of the European Journal of Philosophy (2023) (w. H. Taieb).
– Franz Brentano’s Philosophy after one hundred years. From History of Philosophy to Reism, Dordrecht, Springer (with D. Fisette and H. Janousek), 2021.
– Franz Brentano in Vienna, Dordrecht, Springer, 2021 (with D. Fisette and F. Stadler).
– Brentano Centennial 1917–2017, Brentano Studien, vol. 16 (2018) (with D. Fisette).
– Brentano. Essais et conférences, vol. 2, Paris, Vrin, 2021 (with D. Fisette)
– Brentano. Essais et conférences, vol. 1, Paris, Vrin. 2018 (with D. Fisette)
– Franz Brentano, special issue of the Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, vol. 142, no. 4, 2017. (with D. Fisette).
Journal articles
– “Homeless Objects”, in Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2023 (forthcoming).
– “Why does it matter to individuate the senses: A Brentanian approach”, in European Journal for Philosophy, 2021, (online first), https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12735
– « Reinach on one-membered states of affairs », in New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Research, vol. 19, 2022.
– « Descriptive Psychology: Dilthey and the School of Brentano » in HOPOS : The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2020 vol. 10, pp. 290-307.
Chapters in edited books
– “Phenomenology and Characterology: Austrian and Bavarian” in . Í. Vendrell Ferran (ed.), Else Voigtländer: Self, Emotion, and Sociality, Dordrecht: Springer, 2023, 163-178.
– « The Context Principle in Austro-German Philosophy », in A. Dewalque, C. Gauvry and S. Richard (eds.), Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School, London, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021.
– « Brentano on Phenomenology and Philosophy as a Science» in D. Fisette, G. Fréchette and F. Stadler (eds.), Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy. Cham, Springer, 2020, pp. 101-116.
– « Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy» in D. De Santis, B. Hopkins, C. Majolino (ed.), Handbook of Phenomenological Philosophy, London, Routledge, 2020.
– « Brentano on Perception and Illusion» in C. Limbeck et F. Stadler (eds.), Proceedings of the 40th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019.
– « From Brentano to Mach: Carving Austrian Philosophy at its Joints» in F. Stadler (ed.), Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence, Dordrecht, Springer, 2019, pp .51-62.
– « The Origins of Phenomenology in Austro-German Philosophy : Brentano and Husserl » in J. Shand (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, London, Blackwell, 2019, p. 418-453.
– « Bergman and Brentano », in U. Kriegel (ed.), Routledge Companion to the School of Brentano, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 323-333.
– « Brentano on Time-Consciousness », in U. Kriegel (ed.), Routledge Companion to the School of Brentano, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 75-86.
Varia
Two of my articles have been translated into Portuguese:
– « A tese de Brentano (revisitada), in Guairacá Revista de Filosofia, vol. 31, no. 2, 2016, pp. 106-132.
– « Kant, Brentano e Stumpf sobre psychologia e anti-psicologismo“, in Peri Revista de filosofia, Bd. 8 vol. 1 (2016), pp. 1-11.
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