Resumen de Brentano’s Evaluative-Attitudinal Account of Will and Emotion

Uriah Kriegel

• The conception of the unity of will and emotions advocated by Brentano might prove an enlightening and innovative contribution to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of emotions. Brentano indeed emphasizes both the essentially evaluative nature of desire and its sui generis character, which is irreducible to perceptual or cognitive modes, a position that draws on an attitudinal account of desire. But unity does not mean identity, and this conception of the third class of mental acts also enables one to distinguish volitional phenomena from purely affective phenomena, thereby preserving the unity of the third class whilst allowing one to answer some objections raised against the Brentanian conception of emotions.