according to the philosopher peter simons, "psychology from an empirical standpoint" "forged franz brentano's reputation and it remains his most important and influential single work...it helped to establish psychology as a scientific discipline in its own right. through brentano's illustrious circle of students it exerted a wide influence on philosophy and psychology, especially in austria, germany, poland, and italy." simons compares the influence of brentano's work to that of wilhelm wundt's "grundzüge der physiologischen psychologie", also published in 1874. simons lists gestalt psychology and alexius meinong's theory of objects as additional developments related to brentano's work, noting that "the course of the "psychology"'s influence has yet to be fully run." simons comments that kraus's notes on "psychology from an empirical standpoint" "are frequently shrill and intrusive." simons writes that while passages in chapter one "clearly accord mental phenomena an epistemological advantage over physical phenomena", kraus "cannot forbear intervening several times to explain how brentano expresses himself misleadingly, how this conflicts with other things he says elsewhere, and so on." simons believes that the purpose of kraus's notes is to harmonize brentano's views in "psychology from an empirical standpoint" with views he adopted subsequently.