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Meinong Studies / Meinong Studien

Edited by: Mauro Antonelli and Marian David
On behalf of: Alexius-Meinong-Institut

ISSN: 2198-2309

Editorial Board Liliana Albertazzi Mauro Antonelli Ermanno Bencivenga Johannes Brandl Arkadiusz Chrudzimski Evelyn Dölling Kit Fine Jaakko Hintikka Herbert Hochberg Dale Jacquette Wolfgang Künne Winfried Löffler Johann Christian Marek Kevin Mulligan Roberto Poli Matjaz Potrc Venanzio Raspa Maria Reicher Robin Rollinger Edmund Runggaldier Seppo Sajama Peter Simons Barry Smith Erwin Tegtmeier Editorial Office Dr. Jutta Valent

eISSN: 2198-2317

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The series presents historical and systematic studies on the philosophy of Alexius Meinong and his school, as well as on works influenced by aspects of Meinong’s philosophy. Furthermore, the series is open to contributions in the analytic-phenomenological tradition, mirroring the most recent developments in these disciplines.

Book 2020

Psychological Themes in the School of Alexius Meinong

Arnaud Dewalque, Venanzio Raspa

Volume 10 in this series

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This volume addresses key aspects of the philosophical psychology elaborated by Alexius Meinong and some of his students. It covers a wide range of topics, from the place of psychological investigations in Meinong’s unique philosophical program to his thought-provoking views on perception, colors, “Vorstellungsproduktion,” assumptions, values, truth, and emotions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664850
ISBN:: 9783110664850
ISBN:: 9783110662511
ISBN:: 9783110662658
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Phenomenology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Fiction and Representation

Zoltán Vecsey

Volume 9 in this series

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One of the basic insights of the book is that there is a notion of non-relational linguistic representation which can fruitfully be employed in a systematic approach to literary fiction. This notion allows us to develop an improved understanding of the ontological nature of fictional entities. A related insight is that the customary distinction between extra-fictional and intra-fictional contexts has only a secondary theoretical importance. This distinction plays a central role in nearly all contemporary theories of literary fiction. There is a tendency among researchers to take it as obvious that the contrast between these two types of contexts is crucial for understanding the boundary that divides fiction from non-fiction. Seen from the perspective of non-relational representation, the key question is rather how representational networks come into being and how consumers of literary texts can, and do, engage with these networks. As a whole, the book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive artefactualist account of the nature of fictional entities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110648225
ISBN:: 9783110648225
ISBN:: 9783110665154
ISBN:: 9783110646801
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
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Book 2017

Christian von Ehrenfels: Philosophie – Gestalttheorie – Kunst

Österreichische Ideengeschichte im Fin de Siècle

Ulf Höfer, Jutta Valent

Volume 8 in this series

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Christian von Ehrenfels’s study “On the Qualities of Form” laid the basis for Gestalt psychology, yet also enriched other areas of philosophy. This first publication of Ehrenfels’s dissertation compiles essays on the Gestalt concept; the essays track its development; explore ontological, metaphysical, and societal issues; and discuss implications for aesthetics and the ontology of art.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110518306
ISBN:: 9783110518306
ISBN:: 9783110517910
ISBN:: 9783110518009
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
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Book Open Access 2016

Der Briefwechsel

Alexius Meinong, Kazimierz Twardowski, Venanzio Raspa

Volume 7 in this series

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The correspondence between Meinong and Kazimierz Twardowski highlights the relationship between two philosophers who influenced the history of philosophy and psychology in Austria and Poland. The two correspondents discuss, among other things, their epistemological approach and the university politics of their times. In addition, there is an extensive introduction that places the correspondence in its proper historical and philosophical context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110463828
ISBN:: 9783110463828
ISBN:: 9783110462937
ISBN:: 9783110463064
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Existence, Fiction, Assumption

Meinongian Themes and the History of Austrian Philosophy

Mauro Antonelli, Marian David

Volume 6 in this series

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Meinong-Studies, Vol. 6, contains papers focusing on the connections between intentionality and nonexistent objects, presenting historical analyses on the background of Meinong’s philosophical position up to the Meinong-Russell-Debate. It also contains systematic studies of fictional characters, of Kripke’s alternative theory of fiction, and of the relevance of fictions playing the role of assumptions in scientific contexts. The volume is completed by biographical sketches of Christian von Ehrenfels, founder of Gestalt-theory and Meinong’s close friend, and of Ernst Mally, disciple of Meinong and successor to his chair.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110453270
ISBN:: 9783110453270
ISBN:: 9783110451511
ISBN:: 9783110451368
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Logical, Ontological, and Historical Contributions on the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong

Mauro Antonelli, Marian David

Volume 5 in this series

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The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong’s Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics. In addition it presents studies on Meinong’s notion of probability and on Auguste Fischer, a student and collaborator of Meinong.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351187
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034974-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035118-7
ISBN:: 9783110367980
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

The Aesthetics of the Graz School

Venanzio Raspa

Volume 4 in this series

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This is the first volume devoted to the aesthetics of the Graz school. V. Raspa’s introduction gives an outline of the aesthetic themes and exponents of the school. D. Jacquette argues for a Meinongian subjectivistic aesthetic value theory. B. Langlet deals with aesthetic properties and emotions. Ch.G. Allesch presents Witasek's aesthetics in its historical context. Í. Vendrell Ferran investigates the aesthetic experience and quasi-feelings in Meinong, Witasek, Saxinger and Schwarz. R. Martinelli illustrates the musical aesthetics of Ehrenfels, Höfler and Witasek. P. Mahr asks if object-theoretical aesthetics is possible at all. M. Potrc and V. Strahovnik concentrate on Veber's aesthetic judgment. N. Dolcini deals with the migration of ficta, and F. Orilia with words and pictures in fictional stories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324600
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032437-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032460-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
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Book 2009

Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Alfred Schramm

Volume 3 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333329
ISBN:: 978-3-86838-043-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033332-9
ISBN:: 9783110330083
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
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Book 2006

Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Venanzio Raspa

Volume 2 in this series

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The traditional and lively interest in Meinong’s philosophy and related topics among Italian philosophers gives rise to this volume of MEINONG STUDIES. As more than an introduction, Venanzio Raspa presents an enlightening historical presentation of Meinong’s reception in Italy from his lifetime to the present day. Riccardo Martinelli offers a reconstruction of the Meinongian theory of musical objects of higher order. Francesca Modenato gives the outlines of Meinong’s object theory as a theory of the pure object, separating it from ontology and associating it rather with gnoseology. From a less historical than systematic-analytic perspective, Andrea Bottani deals with incomplete objects, Mario Alai investigates the problem of propositions concerning non-existent objects, and Carola Barbero proposes a realistic theory of the emotions aroused by reading literary texts. As themes related to Meinongian ones, Alberto Voltolini discusses the concept of existence as a property, Francesco Orilia validates an intuition of Meinong by adopting an approach called 'fact infinitism', and Guido Bonino deals with Gustav Bergmann’s interpretation of Meinong’s ontology.

Das traditionelle und lebhafte Interesse italienischer Philosophen an Meinongs Philosophie und damit zusammenhängenden Themen gibt Anlaß für diesen Band der MEINONG STUDIEN. Weit über die Anforderungen an ein Eineitung hinausgehend, präsentiert Venanzio Raspa eine erhellende Studie der Rezeption Meinongs in Italien von seinen Lebzeiten bis zum heutigen Tag. Riccardo Martinelli rekonstruiert Meinongs Theorie musikalischer Objekte höherer Ordnung und Francesca Modenato umreißt Meinongs Objekttheorie (als Theorie reiner Objekte), welche sie eher der Gnoseologie denn der Ontologie zuordnet. Aus einer weniger historischen als systematisch-analytischen Perspektive befassen sich Andrea Bottani mit unvollständigen Objekten, Mario Alai mit der Frage nicht-existierende Objekte betreffender Aussagen, und Carola Barbero präsentiert eine realistische Theorie von Emotionen, die durch die Lektüre literarischer Texte erweckt werden. Als Meinong-bezogene Themen diskutiert Alberto Voltolini den Begriff der Existenz als Eigenschaft, Francesco Orilia bestätigt in seinem 'Fakteninfinitismus' genannten Zugang eine Meinongsche Intuition, und Guido Bonino befaßt sich mit Gustav Bergmanns Interpretation der Meinongschen Ontologie.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321128
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032092-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032112-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Alfred Schramm

Volume 1 in this series

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Der erste Band der Meinong Studien vereinigt historische Beiträge zur Meinong-Forschung im engeren Sinn mit solchen, die Meinongsche Themen und Gedanken in systematischer Absicht wieder aufnehmen. Die angestellten Untersuchungen widmen sich der vor-gegenstandstheoretischen Periode Meinongs (Chrudzimski), seinen frühen erkenntnistheoretischen Untersuchungen (Manotta), seinen Theorien der Vorstellungsproduktion (Raspa) und der Annahmen (Dölling), konfrontieren seine Lehren mit jenen Franz Brentanos (Rollinger), Sartres und Russells (Hochberg) und analysieren die Fragen der Konsistenz des Meinongschen Universums der Gegenstände (Simons), seiner Theorie der Größen und Messung (Guigon), seiner (und Ernst Mallys) Objekt-theoretischen Grundlegung der Logik (Tegtmeier) sowie dem Verhältnis von Semantik und Ontologie aus der Perspektive einer heutigen Konzeption.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333190
ISBN:: 978-3-937202-77-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033319-0
ISBN:: 9783110333015
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Kant in Österreich

Alois Riehl und der Weg zum kritischen Realismus

Rudolf Meer, Giuseppe Motta

Volume 12 in this series

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There is a very distinct Austrian form of Neo-Kantianism that can be described systematically as realistic critical philosophy. Its common denominator is an interpretation of Kant that builds up on the concept of experience and sensation. Alongside R. Hönigswald and R. Reiniger, it was above all the critical philosophy of A. Riehls that shaped this intellectual tradition, which this volume rediscovers and to which it pays tribute.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747379
ISBN:: 9783110747379
ISBN:: 9783110747423
ISBN:: 9783110747287
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neokantianism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
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Book 2021

Herbartism in Austrian Philosophy

Carole Maigné

Volume 11 in this series

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"Herbartism in Austrian-Hungarian philosophy" is often an obligatory reference, but even if quoting Herbart and his school is frequent, reading them attentively is less evident. Because Herbartism reached its peak in the second half of the 19^th century, and was effectively institutionalized as "official philosophy" of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at least in Prague and Vienna, criticizing Herbartism often means discussing the "Austrian", "philosophical" and "institutional" criteria of the object under consideration. As the history of the Austrian tradition and theoretical reflections in this field expand, discussion of this tradition is becoming more and more tight and precise. The contributors in this volume recall the historical and conceptual importance of Herbartism in the field of Austrian philosophy, by addressing several aspects of his specific realism: philosophical, theoretical, pedagogical, psychological, and aesthetical.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747324
ISBN:: 9783110747324
ISBN:: 9783110747447
ISBN:: 9783110747294
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: German Idealism
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