Ontology and Analysis: Essays and Recollections about Gustav Bergmann

✍ Scribed by Laird Addis; Greg Jesson; Erwin Tegtmeier

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis; 20
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, the greatest ontologist of the twentieth century in pursuing the fundamental questions of first philosophy as deeply as any philosopher of any time. In 2006 and 2007, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann’s work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, and Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Italy. The papers in this volume were presented at the first of these conferences, in Iowa City, where Bergmann taught for nearly four decades after escaping from Europe, following the dissolution of the Vienna Circle of which he had been the youngest member. There are nine philosophical papers, reminiscences of three of his students, and a complete bibliography of his published writings.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction
Philosophical Papers
The Developmentof Bergmann’s MetaphysicsERWIN TEGTMEIER
The First Stationof Gustav Bergmann’s OdysseyGUIDO BONINO
Bergmann as HistorianROBERT BAKER
Bergmann on the Synthetic A Priori Truth:Nothing Can Have Two Colors All Overat OnceDONALD SIEVERT
Gustav Bergmann’s Quest for theOntology of Knowing:From Phenomenalism towards RealismGREG JESSON
Time for Bergmann’s Bare ParticularsERNÂNI MAGALHÃES
Bradley’s Regress:Meinong versus BergmannFRANCESCO ORILIA
Bergmann’s Thinkable InexpressiblesWILLIAM HEALD
Placing BergmannFRED WILSON
Reminiscences
Reminiscence of Gustav BergmannCARL LEIDEN
Reminiscence of Gustav Bergmann (1987)REINHARDT GROSSMANN
Reminiscences of Bergmann’s Last StudentL. NATHAN OAKLANDER
AfterwordRead Bergmann!
Bibliographyof the Writings of Gustav Bergmann
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