Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

Title page of the first edition
Author	Franz Brentano
Original title	Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte
Translators	Antos C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell, Linda L. McAlister
Country	Germany
Language	German
Subject	Psychology
Published	1874 (Duncker & Humblot, in German) 1924 (Philosophische Biblothek, in German) 1973 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, in English)
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	350 (first edition) 415 (2005 Routledge edition)
ISBN	978-1138019171

Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (German: Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) (1874; second edition 1924) is an 1874 book by the Austrian philosopher Franz Brentano, in which the author argues that the goal of psychology should be to establish exact laws. Brentano's best known book, it established his reputation as a philosopher, helped to establish psychology as a scientific discipline, and influenced Husserlian phenomenology, analytic philosophy, gestalt psychology, and the philosopher Alexius Meinong's theory of objects. It has been called Brentano's best known work^[1] and has been compared to the physician Wilhelm Wundt's Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie and the Project for a Scientific Psychology of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.