Author: Carolyn Swanson
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401200610
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Alexius Meinong claimed to uncover a brave new world of nonexistent objects. He contended that unreal objects, such as the golden mountain and the round square, genuinely had properties (such as nonexistence itself) and therefore, deserved a place in an all-inclusive science. Meinong’s notion of nonexistents was initially not well-received, largely due to the influence and criticisms of Bertrand Russell. However, it has gained considerable popularity in more recent years as academics have uncovered shortfalls in Russell’s philosophy and strived to explain apparent “facts” about the beingless. Some philosophers have continued Meinong’s project, further explaining nonexistent objects or formulating logic systems that incorporate them. The more recent developments beg for a re-examination of Meinongianism. This book does just that, putting the theory on trial. Part One considers if Russell truly defeated Meinongianism. It addresses Meinongian rejoinders in response to Russell’s main criticisms and further defends Russell’s alternative solution, his Theory of Descriptions. Part Two explores the rationale for nonexistents and their use in interpreting three types of statements: characterization, negative existential, and intentional. The book argues that, despite appearances, Meinongianism cannot plausibly account for its own paradigm claims, whereas Russell’s framework, with some further elucidation, can explain these statements quite well. Part Three primarily addresses claims about fiction, exploring the short-comings of Meinongian and Russellian frameworks in interpreting them. The book introduces a contextualization solution and symbolic method for capturing the logical form of such claims – one with the complexity to handle cross-contextual statements, including negative existential and intentional ones. It finally considers where that leaves nonexistent objects, ultimately rejecting such so-called entities.
Author: Troy R. Johnson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761990611
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Moving into the 21st century, Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities remain culturally vibrant and politically innovative as they continue to struggle for survival on many fronts. Editor Troy R. Johnson has assembled a volume of top scholarship from which emerge the complexity and diversity of Native American political life. Each topical section is introduced by the editor's own commentaries, which provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. These are followed by informative and critical studies, many drawn from the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, which offer grounded experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native American political settings.
Author: Roberto Pujia
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8869774805
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Bertrand Russell’s research on logic is believed, alongside Wittgenstein’s and Moore’s works, to have fuelled the linguistic turn that characterized much of twentieth-century philosophy. This process originated in the refutation of British idealism and monism, providing a new interpretation of empiricism. But while his debt to traditional British empiricism has been the subject of study (including by Russell himself) and extensively investigated, the assumption that the British neo-idealist legacy was merely a polemical target of Russell and Moore’s realist pluralism has hindered a proper assessment of its influence – which, on the contrary, proves to be of theoretical significance. This essay attempts a documentary reconstruction – in part relying on the Bertrand Russell Archives – to better understand Russell’s relationship with the thought of F. H. Bradley and, indirectly but consequently, with the English idealist tradition.
Author: Hakam H. Al-Shawi
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401206910
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ISSUE -- INSIGHT AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- RECONSTRUCTION AND ABSORPTION -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES -- METAPHYSICAL ISSUES -- ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.
Author: John-Mark L. Miravalle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350061638
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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God and fictional objects are central topics within philosophy, but rarely do the respective discussions overlap. Until now the two fields have remained independent. Applying the debate about fictional objects to issues of theology for the first time, John-Mark L. Miravalle bridges these two fields and presents a new approach to notions of God, creatures, and existence. Miravalle explains why meinongianism, which holds that certain things can serve as intentional objects with properties, even though they do not exist, can facilitate talk of nonexistence better than other metaphysical viewpoints, such as platonism, modal realism and pretense-theory. He identifies points of connection between theology and nonexistents and uses meinongianism to buttress the cosmological and ontological arguments for God's existence. As a result he is able to explore fresh solutions to problems of classical theism, from the necessary existence of God and creation ex nihilo to free will and the problem of evil. By revealing how a particular account of fictional objects is especially harmonious with and supportive of the major claims of traditional theism, Miravalle makes a major contribution to theistic metaphysics.
Author: Necip Fikri Alican
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401208123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE OF PLATO -- THOUGHT OF PLATO -- WORKS OF PLATO -- EUTHYPHRO -- APOLOGY -- CRITO -- PHAEDO -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO FURTHER STUDY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- VIBS.
Author: Camila Loew
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401207062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women’s testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors’ search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of Women and Holocaust studies from the early 1980s on, and signals some of its shortcomings. In response, and in accordance with a recent turn in various disciplines of the Humanities, Loew highlights the ethical dimension of testimony and its responsible commitment to the other. In dealing with the texts as literary testimonies—a complex genre, between literature and history—, testimony is freed from the obligation to respond to the requirements of factual truth, and becomes a privileged form to voice the traumatic event, and to symbolically explore the role of excess.
Author: Nadia Russ
Publisher: NeoPopRealism PRESS
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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NeoPopRealism Journal and Wonderpedia founded by Nadia Russ in 2007 (N.J.) and 2008 (W.). Wonderpedia is dedicated to books published all over the globe after year 2000, offering the books' reviews.
Author:
Publisher: NeoPopRealism PRESS
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Wonderpedia offers the books reviews, while NeoPopRealism Journal publishes news, views and other information additionally to the books reviews. These publications were founded by Nadia RUSS in 2007 and 2008, in new York City.
Author: Michael Krausz
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Preliminary Material -- PROLOGUE -- ONENESS AND DEATH -- ONENESS AND SELF-REALIZATION -- LOVE AND MEDITATION -- INTENTIONALITY AND RATIONALITY -- LIMITS OF LANGUAGE -- THE DISPLACEMENT OF SELF -- FOR FURTHER READING -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.
