| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Philosophische Forschung ; Bd. 5 = Philosophical research ; v. 5 |
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Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 5.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Andrea Bottani and Richard Davies -- Facts, formal objects and ontology / Kevin Mulligan -- Fictional and aesthetic objects : Meinong's point of view / Venanzio Raspa -- Russell's descriptions and Meinong's assumptions / Frederick Kroon -- McGinn on existence / Peter van Inwagen -- The talk I was supposed to give / Achille C. Varzi -- Two interpretations of "According to a story" / Maria E. Reicher -- Madame Bovary as a higher-order object / Carola Barbero -- Identity across time and stories / Francesco Orilia -- A problem about reference in fiction / Giuseppe Spolaore |
| Summary |
The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal? Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone is not sad and saying that something does not exist? If we can speak meaningfully about fictions, wha |
| Notes |
Papers from the Conference "On What (Perhaps) There Is," held May 2005 at the Università di Bergamo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ontology -- Congresses
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Logic -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Logic
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Ontology
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Existenzialontologie
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Logik
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Ontologie
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bottani, Andrea, 1958-
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Davies, Richard (Richard Brian), 1944-
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| ISBN |
9783110327533 |
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3110327538 |
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9783938797 |
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9789783938793 |
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9783110327281 |
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3110327287 |
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