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Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary Philosophy

Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer Verlag (1993)

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Nonexistent objects.Maria Reicher - 2019 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Are there nonexistent objects, i.e., objects that do not exist? Some examples often cited are: Zeus, Pegasus, Sherlock Holmes, Vulcan (the hypothetical planet postulated by the 19th century astronomer Le Verrier), the perpetual motion machine, the golden mountain, the fountain of youth, the round square, etc. Some important philosophers have thought that the very concept of a nonexistent object is contradictory (Hume) or logically ill-formed (Kant, Frege), while others (Leibniz, Meinong, the Russell of Principles of Mathematics) have embraced it wholeheartedly. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 37 citations
Intentionality, Object and Sense in Alexius Meinong’s Gegenstandstheori.Luis Niel - 2015 - Azafea: Revista de Filosofia 17:141-173.details Meinong’s ‘theory of objects’ is a radicalization of Brentano’s intentionalist theory which widens the universe of objects, since every act has a transcendent object as a correlate. The article focuses on two main issues: on the one hand, the object–as correlate of representations –that might be existent, subsistent or nonexistent ; on the other hand, the ‘objective’–as correlate of judgments and assumptions–; I will argue that the problem of nonexistent objects finds its solution here, i.e. within the sphere of propositional (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
A Noneist Account of the Doctrine of Creatio ex Nihilo.Paul Douglas Kabay - 2013 - Sophia 52 (2):281-293.details I spell out a problem with the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo: that, contra the doctrine, it is not possible to efficiently cause something from nothing. This is because an efficient cause requires a material cause in order to have an effect. The material cause supplies the potency that the efficient cause actualises. Because nothingness has no potencies, there is nothing for an efficient cause to actualise. I show that this objection presupposes that the theory of noneism (the proposition that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Alexius meinong.Johann Marek - 2009 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Download Export citation Bookmark 22 citations
Mind and Object. An Essay on Intentionality.Patrik Engisch - 2017 - Dissertation, Université de Fribourgdetails Provides a certain conception of the target of a theory of intentionality in terms of five properties (aboutness, non-existence, aspectuality, generality, and semantic normativity) and provides a guided tour of how different styles of theories of intentionality can meet up these requirements. Download Export citation Bookmark
Whose Existence? A Compromise to the Fregean Neo-Meinongian Divide.Giuliano Bacigalupo - 2016 - Argumenta 2 (1):5-24.details The dispute between the Fregean and the Neo-Meinongian approach to existence has become entrenched: it seems that nothing but intuitions may be relied upon to decide the issue. And since contemporary analytic philosophers clearly are inclined towards the intuitions that support Frege's approach, it looks as if Fregeanism has won the day. In this paper, however, I try to develop a compromise solution. This compromise consists in abandoning the assumption shared by both Fregeanism and Neo-Meinongianism, namely that the notion of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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