Objects and pseudo-objects : ontological deserts and jungles from Brentano to Carnap /
Which entities should be accepted as part of the furniture of the world, and which not? What are "pseudo-objects," if they are not properly objects? This collection explores the answers given to these questions by some key philosophers throughout the 20th century. It brings together essays...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Series: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 62. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Part I: Ontological Parsimony; How to Do Things with Things. Brentano's Reism and its Limits; The Bounds of Object. The Brentano-Meinong Dispute, A Priori Knowledge, and the Power of Perception; Objects as Posits from a Phenomenological Point of View; The Concept and its Object are (not) One and the Same. The Functional View of Higher Order Objects in Carnap's Work; Part II: Objecthood Prodigality; Objects or Intentional Objects?. Twardowski and Husserl on Non-Existent Entities; Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory.
- Meinong and Early Husserl on Objects and States of AffairsEssential Laws. On Ideal Objects and their Properties in Early Phenomenology; Adolf Reinach's Philosophy of Logic; Husserl's Way Out of Frege's Jungle; Part III: Modes of Being; Ingarden on Modes of Being; Nicolai Hartmann's Theory of Levels of Reality; Bibliography; Index.
