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• Bernard Bolzano

  Bohemian priest, mathematician, and logician (1781–1848), author of the Wissenschaftslehre (1837) — for Husserl "one of the greatest logicians of all time," whose work "far surpasses everything that world-literature has to offer in the way…

• Carl Stumpf

  German philosopher-psychologist (1848–1936), student of franz-brentano, professor at Berlin; teacher of the Gestalt psychologists (Köhler, Koffka, Wertheimer) and a founding figure of experimental phenomenology of sound (Tonpsychologie). F…

• E. H. Gombrich

  Austrian-British art historian and philosopher of art (1909–2001). His Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) develops a resemblance-and-schema account of pictorial representation: pictures represent…

• Franz Brentano

  Austrian philosopher (1838–1917), Catholic priest (laicized 1873), professor at Würzburg and Vienna. Best known to the wiki as the author of the 1862 dissertation Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (Freiburg im Br…

• Kazimierz Twardowski

  Polish philosopher (1866–1938), student of franz-brentano, founder of the Lwów–Warsaw school. His Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (1894) — the content/object distinction within every presentation — is the proximate Br…

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…

• Sigmund Freud

  Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939). In the wiki's context, the primary interlocutor of Merleau-Ponty's 1954–55 Problem of Passivity course. MP engages Freud extensively but selectively: he keeps the clinical dis…