Alexius Meinong, the Shepherd of Non-Being

By Dale Jacquette

Book Overview

Preface (with Acknowledgments).- Introduction: Meinong and Philosophical Analysis.- Chapter 1. Meinong's Life and Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intended Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong.-Chapter 3. Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption.- Chapter 4. Au ersein of the Pure Object.- Chapter 5. Constitutive (Nuclear) and Extraconstitutive (Extranuclear) Properties.- Chapter 6. Meditations on Meinong's Golden Mountain.- Chapter 7. Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory.- Chapter 8. Meinong's Concept of Implexive Being and Non-Being.- Chapter 9. About Nothing.- Chapter 10. Tarski's Quantificational Semantics and Meinongian Object Theory Domains.- Chapter 11. Reflections on Mally's Heresy.- Chapter 12. Virtual Relations and Meinongian Abstractions.- Chapter 13. Truth and Fiction in Lewis's Critique of Meinongian Semantics.- Chapter 14. Anti-Meinongian Actualist Meaning of Fiction in Kripke's 1973 John Locke Lectures.- Chapter 15. Metaphysics of Meinongian Aesthetic Value.- Chapter 16. Quantum Indeterminacy and Physical Reality as a Relevantly Predicationally Incomplete Existent Entity.- Chapter 17. Confessions of a Meinongian Logician 18. Meinongian Dark Ages and Renaissance.- Appendix: Object Theory Logic and Mathematics -- Two Essays by Ernst Mally (Translation and Critical Commentary).- Notes.- References.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319354957
• ISBN13: 9783319354958
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"