Existence as a Real Property The Ontology of Meinongianism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Berto, Francesco (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 356
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; History of Philosophy.

This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is not a predicate.” The initial se...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue: Much Ado About Nothing
• Acknowledgments
• Existence as Logic
• Chapter 1. The Paradox of Non-Being
• Chapter 2. To Exist and to Count
• Chapter 3. Troubles for the Received View
• Nonexistence
• Chapter 4. Existence As a Real Property
• Chapter 5. Naïve Meinongianism
• Chapter 6. Meinongianisms of The First, Second, and Third Kind
• Close Encounters (with Nonexistents) of the Third Kind
• Chapter 7. Conceiving the Impossible
• Chapter 8. Nonexistents of The Third Kind at Work
• Chapter 9. Open Problems
• References
• Index.