This book reconstructs Brentano's and his pupils' main achievements, revitalizing knowledge of their analyses, debates and style. The relevance of those discussions for contemporary philosophical debate are also considered.

Contents: The Brentano Puzzle: an introduction; Who needs Brentano? the wasteland of philosophy without its past; Introduction to Paul Linke's Gottlob Frege as Philosopher?; Gottlob Frege as philosopher; Franz Brentano and the University of Vienna Philosophical Society 1888-1938; On agents and objects. Some remarks on Brentanian perception; Perceptual saliences and nuclei of meaning; Brentano and the thinkable; From empirical psychology to phenomenology. Edmund Husserl on the Brentano Puzzle?; Brentano and Boltzmann: the Schubladenexperiment; Johannes Daubert's Theory of Judgement; On Alexius Meinong's Theory of Signs; Linguistic expressions and acts of meaning: comments on Marty's Philosophy of Language.