Phenomenology and cognitive science

Brentano has defined psychology as a science of the human mind’s life, ie of every part of the mind, which can be experienced in inner percep tion. He has divided psychology into descriptive psychology (Brentano also calls it phenomenol ogy) and genetic psychology.(Brentano, 1982, pl) The subject of the first are the elements of con sciousness and the ways in which they are bound