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- Offers a collection of essays on the philosophy of Alexius Meinong, a figure of increasing importance in contemporary philosophical logic and semantics
- Chapters show a natural progression of topics, beginning with Meinong’s life and progressing to the main lines of his philosophy
- Provides a useful companion to any of the recent formalizations of Meinongian object theory
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 360)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his discovery of assumptions as a fourth category of mental states to supplement his teacher Franz Brentano’s references to presentations, feelings, and judgments.
The chapters explore further the meaning and metaphysics of fictional and other nonexistent intended objects, fine points in Meinongian object theory are considered and new and previously unanticipated problems are addressed. The author traces being and non-being and aspects of beingless objects including objects in fiction, ideal objects in scientific theory, objects ostensibly referred to in false science and false history and intentional imaginative projection of future states of affairs. The chapters focus on an essential choice of conceptual, logical, semantic, ontic and more generally metaphysical problems and an argument is progressively developed from the first to the final chapter, as key ideas are introduced and refined.
Meinong studies have come a long way from Bertrand Russell’s off-target criticisms and recent times have seen a rise of interest in a Meinongian approach to logic and the theory of meaning. New thinkers see Meinong as a bridge figure between analytic and continental thought, thanks to the need for an adequate semantics of meaning in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, making this book a particularly timely publication.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Dale Jacquette
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being
Authors: Dale Jacquette
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18075-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18074-8Published: 22 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35495-8Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18075-5Published: 13 July 2015
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 434
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ontology, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind