Meinong on Meaning and Truth: A Theory of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Anna Sierszulska

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Phenomenology & Mind; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART IOBJECTIVES AND OTHER OBJECTSOF INTENTIONAL REFERENCE
CHAPTER 1REAL, IDEAL AND 'NON-SUBSISTING'OBJECTS
CHAPTER 2OBJECTIVES AS OBJECTS OF HIGHERORDER
PART IIMEANING AND TRUTH
CHAPTER 3MEINONG'S THEORY OF MEANING
CHAPTER 4MEINONG'S LOGICAL REALISM
PART IIIMEINONG'S TRUTH IN THE EYES OFHIS CRITICS
CHAPTER 5RUSSELL'S RECEPTION OF MEINONG'SPHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER 6AGAINST THE POST-RUSSELLIANVIEW OF MEINONG'S PROPOSITIONS
CHAPTER 7SOME EPISTEMOLOGICALINVESTIGATIONS CONCERNINGMEINONG'S PHILOSOPHY
PART IVMEINONG'S THEORY IN THEPERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICALSEMANTICS
CHAPTER 8REFERENCE IN A MEINONGIANSEMANTICS
CHAPTER 9THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF AMEINONGIAN SEMANTICS
CONCLUSION: THE COSTS OFPRESERVING EPISTEMOLOGICALREALISM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES