ABSTRACT
For roughly a century now language has been among the central themes – and indeed often the central theme – of philosophical investigations. If there is any hope of making Brentano visible in the contemporary philosophical arena, this will be facilitated by finding applications in his philosophy to the philosophy of language. Such applications are fortunately easy to find, for Brentano’s most loyal and devoted pupil, Anton Marty, spent his entire philosophical career working in precisely this area of inquiry. Here I shall discuss Marty’s philosophy of language in connection with three issue, The first concerns the ontological requirements of language. Secondly, attention will be given to Marty’s peculiar application of Brentanian descriptive psychology to the philosophy of language. The third issue under consideration is the so-called ‘mentalism’ which prevails in Marty’s thought.
