1.1 The Problem ‘What is characteristic of every mental activity’, according to Brentano, is ‘the reference to something as an object. In this respect every mental activity seems to be something relational.’ But what sort of a relation, if any, is our cognitive access to the world? This question – which we shall call Brentano’s question – throws a new light on many of the traditional problems o...

I would like to centre the Brentano puzzle on the problem of Brentano's invisibility. Those asked to list the principal philosophers of the nineteenth century usually reply with names like those of Nietzsche, Mach, Dilthey, Mill, Frege, Kirkegaard. Perhaps Herbart, Comte, Simmel and Marx. Sometimes Bradley, Bolzano or Lotze are remembered. Very rarely, the name of Brentano is mentioned. Given t...

The entangled history of Sciacharis Broun, 1983, a genus in which nearly 240 species were placed by Herbert Franz who has apparently never studied its type species, was recently summarized by Jałoszyński (2014a, b). A synonymy of Chatchamaenus Franz with Sciacharis s. str. was demonstrated, and Maorinus Franz, 1980 was placed as a subgenus of Sciacharis (Jałoszyński 2014a). Still, the systemati...

Brentano dice haber tomado su idea de intencionalidad del pensamiento escolástico. Sin embargo, en santo Tomás Aquino lo intencional no se identifica sin más con cognoscitivo, aunque así hayan interpretado algunos escolásticos, incluso tiempos Brentano. Además, el filósofo alemán sólo inspira él, sino también Francisco Suárez, para elaborar presencia intencional. En un manuscrito inédito legado...

Three species of Stenichnaphes Franz were described from New Zealand: St. urbanus Franz (type species of the genus), St. peloriensis Franz and St. newtoni Franz, but the two former names were later synonymized. Basing on detailed morphological study, St. peloriensis is reinstated as a separate species, and St. newtoni is transferred to Scydmaenilla King, within Zeanilla subg. n., resulting in S...

Examination of the holotype of the type species of Stenichnodes Franz revealed that morphological structures of this Afrotropical genus are nearly identical with those of later described Oriental Parastenichnaphes Franz. Consequently, Parastenichnaphes is reduced to a subgenus of Stenichnodes, resulting in Stenichnodes (Parastenichnaphes) sumatrensis Franz, comb. n. and Stenichnodes (Parastenic...