Existence, Fiction, Assumption: Meinongian Themes and the History of Austrian Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Mauro Antonelli (editor); Marian David (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Meinong Studies / Meinong Studien; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Meinong-Studies, Vol. 6, contains papers focusing on the connections between intentionality and nonexistent objects, presenting historical analyses on the background of Meinong’s philosophical position up to the Meinong-Russell-Debate. It also contains systematic studies of fictional characters, of Kripke’s alternative theory of fiction, and of the relevance of fictions playing the role of assumptions in scientific contexts. The volume is completed by biographical sketches of Christian von Ehrenfels, founder of Gestalt-theory and Meinong’s close friend, and of Ernst Mally, disciple of Meinong and successor to his chair.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents / Inhalt
Relational Theories of Intentionality and the Problem of Non-Existents
The Non-Existing Object Revisited: Meinong as the Link between Husserl and Russell?
Anti-Meinongian Actualist Meaning of Fiction in Kripke’s 1973 John Locke Lectures
Paradise on the Cheap. Ascriptivism about Ficta
Meinong’s Theory of Assumptions and its Relevance for Scientific Contexts
Christian von Ehrenfels. Eine intellektuelle Biographie: Neue Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Nachlass
Zu Ernst Mallys Lebensgang, Umfeld und akademischer Laufbahn