Objects and Pseudo-Objects : : Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap / / ed. by Bruno Leclercq, Sebastien Richard, Denis Seron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Boccaccini, Federico,; Brisart, Robert,; Chrudzimski, Arkadiusz,; Fréchette, Guillaume,; Gyemant, Maria,; Jacquette, Dale,; Leclercq, Bruno,; Ortiz Hill, Claire,; Poli, Roberto,; Richard, Sébastien,; Seron, Denis,; Simons, Peter,; Zielinska, Anna C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Leclercq, Bruno,; Richard, Sebastien,; Seron, Denis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 62
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account. One of the major issues confronting the 20th century philosophers was to identify which of these entities should be rationally accepted as part of the furniture of the world and which should not, and to provide a general account of how the latter are nevertheless subject to true predication. The 13 original essays collected in this volume explore some of the main approaches to this issue in the 20th century, including Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, Carnap, Frege, Twardowski, Kotarbinski, Nicolai Hartmann, and realist phenomenologists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Ontological Parsimony -- How to Do Things with Things -- The Bounds of Object -- Objects as Posits from a Phenomenological Point of View -- The Concept and its Object are (not) One and the Same -- Part II: Objecthood Prodigality -- Objects or Intentional Objects? -- Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory -- Meinong and Early Husserl on Objects and States of Affairs -- Essential Laws -- 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