Objects and Pseudo-Objects: Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap

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The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account. One of the major issues confronting the 20th century philosophers was to identify which of these entities should be rationally accepted as part of the furniture of the world and which should not, and to provide a general account of how the latter are nevertheless subject to true predication. The 13 original essays collected in this volume explore some of the main approaches to this issue in the 20th century, including Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, Carnap, Frege, Twardowski, Kotarbinski, Nicolai Hartmann, and realist phenomenologists. Preface Contents Part I: Ontological Parsimony How to Do Things with Things.Brentano’s Reism and its Limits The Bounds of Object.The Brentano-Meinong Dispute, A Priori Knowledge, and the Power of Perception Objects as Posits from a Phenomenological Point of View The Concept and its Object are (not) One and the Same.The Functional View of Higher Order Objects in Carnap’s Work Part II: Objecthood Prodigality Objects or Intentional Objects?.Twardowski and Husserl on Non-Existent Entities Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory Meinong and Early Husserl on Objects and States of Affairs Essential Laws.On Ideal Objects and their Properties in Early Phenomenology Adolf Reinach’s Philosophy of Logic Husserl’s Way Out of Frege’s Jungle Part III: Modes of Being Ingarden on Modes of Being Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Levels of Reality Bibliography Index