 Findlay’s academic appointments do not track his intellectual development; the crucial turns in his mental life involved academic leaves. In 1929, Findlay went to Germany and spent part of 1930 in Berlin. There he learned German, and discovered the works of Brentano, Meinong, and Husserl. Brentano inspired Findlay’s book, Values and Intentions (VI begun in 1933, published in 1963); Meinong inspired the book Meinong’s Theory of Objects (M, begun in 1931, published in 1933,) and Husserl inspired Findlay to undertake the translation (begun in 1939, published in 1970). of Husserl’s intricate Logisiche Untersuchungen. The research on Meinong involved several stays at the University of Graz, where he received a doctorate in 1932 for his work on Meinong. The depth of his commitment to the phenomenological tradition is indicated by the scale of these projects, involving decades of work on an almost daily basis.