The positivist and the ontologist : : Bergmann, Carnap and logical realism / / Herbert Hochberg.

The book contains the first systematic study of the ontology and metaphysics of Gustav Bergmann, tracing their development from early (1940s) criticisms of Carnap's semantical theories in Introduction to Semantics, to their culmination in his 1992 New Foundations of Ontology . This involves a d...

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Superior document:Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie ; Band 32
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie ; Band 32.
Physical Description:1 online resource (411 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • From Positivism to Metaphysics: Bergmann's Critique of Carnap's Semantics
  • Reism, Ontological Types and Aufbau-type Ontological Constructions
  • Bergmann's REALISM and the Critique of Bundle and Trope Ontologies
  • Carnapian Consequences: Realism and Semantic Refutations of Realism
  • Bergmann's Reism: Brentano's and Carnap's Revenge
  • Relational Order, the Russell-Wittgenstein Dispute and Meinongian Realism
  • Negation, Quantification and Intensional Isomorphism
  • The Phenomenology and Ontology of Logic, Classes and Modality
  • Dispositions and Laws: Hume, Husserl and Causal Realism
  • Avoiding Absurdity: Physical Realism, Phenomenalism and Mindless Materialism
  • Extensions, Intensions and Carnap's Critique of Reference
  • Reference Reconsidered
  • Logical Truth, Logical Paradoxes and Logical Realism.