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Also Known As Franz Clemens Brentano
Born January 16, 1838 • Germany
Died March 17, 1917 (aged 79) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte”
Subjects Of Study intentionality
Oswald Külpe
German psychologist and philosopher
Alexius Meinong
Austrian philosopher and psychologist
James Ward
British philosopher and psychologist
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German mathematician, economist, and philosopher
Ludwig Klages
German psychologist and philosopher
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
Prussian philosopher and psychologist
John Searle
John Searle
American philosopher
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
James J. Gibson
American psychologist and philosopher
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
Bain, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid; in the collection of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Alexander Bain
Scottish philosopher
David Hartley, detail of an engraving
David Hartley
British physician and philosopher
George Frederick Stout
British philosopher and psychologist
Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd
American psychologist and philosopher
Harry S. Broudy
American educator
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher

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