Meinong on Meaning and Truth

Meinong on Meaning and Truth
Title Meinong on Meaning and Truth PDF eBook
Author Anna Sierszulska
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 263
Release 2013-05-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110325667

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The study aims at exposing Meinong's ideas that may be of interest to analytic philosophers. It contains all the basic information concerning Meinong's theory of objects with a special focus upon 'objectives', which are Meinong's propositions. Meinong's theory of meaning and his epistemological views are discussed in detail. An outline of his conception of truth, which is classified as firmly realistic, is followed by a review of the critical works touching upon Meinong's epistemological ideas. Finally, Meinong's theory of objects is presented as inspiring the development of Meinongian logics, with his Aussersein as the prototype of an all-inclusive semantic domain. The issues considered include reference of terms and sentences as well as the general features of a Meinongian-style semantics.

Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being

Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being
Title Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being PDF eBook
Author Dale Jacquette
Publisher Springer
Pages 434
Release 2015-07-13
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3319180754

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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.​

Nonexistent Objects

Nonexistent Objects
Title Nonexistent Objects PDF eBook
Author K.J. Perszyk
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 338
Release 2013-03-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9401582149

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Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe. This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.

Russell vs. Meinong

Russell vs. Meinong
Title Russell vs. Meinong PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Griffin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 456
Release 2008-11-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1135893144

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A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and controversies concerning contemporary Russellian and Meinongian theories, many of them involving issues that simply did not occur to the original protagonists. This work provides an overview of the latest historical scholarship on the two philosophers as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing the current incarnations of their theories.

Abstract Objects

Abstract Objects
Title Abstract Objects PDF eBook
Author E. Zalta
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 226
Release 1983-06-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9789027714749

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In this book, I attempt to lay the axiomatic foundations of metaphysics by developing and applying a (formal) theory of abstract objects. The cornerstones include a principle which presents precise conditions under which there are abstract objects and a principle which says when apparently distinct such objects are in fact identical. The principles are constructed out of a basic set of primitive notions, which are identified at the end of the Introduction, just before the theorizing begins. The main reason for producing a theory which defines a logical space of abstract objects is that it may have a great deal of explanatory power. It is hoped that the data explained by means of the theory will be of interest to pure and applied metaphysicians, logicians and linguists, and pure and applied epistemologists. The ideas upon which the theory is based are not essentially new. They can be traced back to Alexius Meinong and his student, Ernst Mally, the two most influential members of a school of philosophers and psychologists working in Graz in the early part of the twentieth century. They investigated psychological, abstract and non-existent objects - a realm of objects which weren't being taken seriously by Anglo-American philoso phers in the Russell tradition. I first took the views of Meinong and Mally seriously in a course on metaphysics taught by Terence Parsons at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in the Fall of 1978. Parsons had developed an axiomatic version of Meinong's naive theory of objects.

Meinong's Theory of Objects and Values

Meinong's Theory of Objects and Values
Title Meinong's Theory of Objects and Values PDF eBook
Author John Niemeyer Findlay
Publisher Ashgate Publishing
Pages 353
Release 1995
Genre Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN 9780751201703

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Meinongian Logic

Meinongian Logic
Title Meinongian Logic PDF eBook
Author Dale Jacquette
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 317
Release 2011-07-11
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110879743

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