Existence as a Real Property The Ontology of Meinongianism /

• Main Author: Berto, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 356
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.