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Russell vs. Meinong Nicholas Griffin

Russell vs. Meinong By Nicholas Griffin

Russell vs. Meinong by Nicholas Griffin


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A century after 'On Denoting' was published, the debate it initiated continues. This erudite volume provides an overview of the latest scholarship on Russell and Meinong, as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing the current incarnations of their theories.

Russell vs. Meinong Summary

Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting" by Nicholas Griffin

A century after On Denoting was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and controversies concerning contemporary Russellian and Meinongian theories, many of them involving issues that simply did not occur to the original protagonists. This work provides an overview of the latest historical scholarship on the two philosophers as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing the current incarnations of their theories.

Russell vs. Meinong Reviews

"In conclusion... the editors have produced a highly attractive, concise collection of essays which succeeds in bringing together a variety of perspectives concerning Russell's "On Denoting" and the Russell vs. Meinong debate. Each of the essays in this book is well-crafted and rich in useful insights on a number of theoretically interesting points." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

About Nicholas Griffin

Nicholas Griffin is Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy. He has written widely on Russell and is the general editor of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, the author of Russells Idealist Apprenticeship, and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell, and two volumes of Russells Selected Letters.

Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has recently published Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence; Wittgensteins Thought in Transition; On Boole; Ontology; David Humes Critique of Infinity; and The Philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Russell and Meinong in Retrospect 1. Logic and Denotation Alasdair Urquhart 2. Antirealism and the Theory of Descriptions Graham Stevens 3. Russell vs. Frege on Definite Descriptions as Singular Terms Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Bernard Linsky 4. A Cantorian Argument Against Freges and Early Russells Theories of Descriptions Kevin C. Klement 5. On Denoting: Appearance and Reality Gideon Makin 6. Explaining G. F. Stouts Reaction to Russells On Denoting Omar W. Nasim 7. Russell on the in the Plural David Bostock 8. Psychological Content and Indeterminacy with Respect to Being: Two Notes on the Russell-Meinong Debate Johann Christian Marek 9. Meditations on Meinongs Golden Mountain Dale Jacquette 10. Rethinking Item Theory Nicholas Griffin 11. Contra Meinong Peter Loptson 12. Who is Afraid of Imaginary Objects? Gabriele Contessa 13. Russells Definite Descriptions de re Gregory C. Landini 14. Quantifying in and Anti-Essentialism Michael Nelson 15. Points, Complexes, Complex Points, and a Yacht Nathan Salmon

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NPB9780415963640
9780415963640
0415963648
Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting" by Nicholas Griffin
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008-11-04
398
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