Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy

Denis Fisette is professor in the department of philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal and he teaches philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the history of philosophy in Austria and Germany. He studied philosophy in Montreal (Université de Montréal), in Germany (Freie Universität Berlin, 1982-1985), and in USA (postdoctoral research at Stanford University, 1987-1989). In recent years, his historical research has focused more specifically on the philosophical program of Franz Brentano and his successors (including Husserl's early phenomenology) while his research in the field of philosophy of mind currently bares on emotions and emotional awareness in general. Guillaume Fre¿chette is project director at the University of Salzburg. His research is devoted to the Austro-German tradition. He studies the relation of this tradition both to other trends of 19th Century philosophy and to contemporary philosophy of consciousness and mind. Friedrich Stadler is an Austrian historian of science and philosopher of science, professor em. for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. He is also the founder (in 1991) and long-time director/head of the Institute Vienna Circle, which was established as a Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education of the Vienna University in 2011. Currently he is a permanent fellow of the Institute Vienna Circle and Director of the Vienna Circle Society. His research and teaching cover HPS, Austrian philosophy, esp. Mach, Wittgenstein, Popper, the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism as well as intellectual migration