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Ehrenfels and BrentanoIn Uriah Kriegel (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School, Routledge. pp. 283-292. 2017.Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932) was a student of Franz Brentano and Alexius Meinong. The topic of this paper is Ehrenfels’ relation to Brentano, in particular Brentano’s influence on his philosophical work. After a sketch of Ehrenfels’ most important contributions to philosophy (which belong to the fields of philosophical psychology and value theory), I present those passages within Ehrenfels’ work in which he explicitly deals with Brentano. These concern, in particular, Brentano’s theory of…Read more
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Kommunikative Absichten und die Ontologie des literarischen WerksIn Jan Borkowski, Stefan Descher, Felicitas Ferder & Philipp David Heine (eds.), Literatur interpretieren: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis, Mentis. pp. 191-217. 2015.In diesem Beitrag werden drei Thesen verteidigt: 1. Interpretationen literarischer Werke (im Sinne von Aussagen über die Bedeutung literarischer Werke) können richtig oder falsch sein. 2. Werke haben eine objektive Bedeutung, unabhängig von Interpretationen. 3. Die Bedeutung eines Werks wird wesentlich durch die kommunikativen Absichten der Autorin determiniert. Die Position, dass Werk- und Textbedeutungen durch tatsächliche Autorabsichten des echten Autors konstituiert werden – die Position des…Read more
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17Alexander Piecha: Die Begründbarkeit ästhetischer Werturteile. Paderborn: Mentis, 2002. (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 65 (1): 256-262. 2002.
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270Wie aus Gedanken Dinge werden. Eine Philosophie der ArtefakteDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (2): 219-232. 2013.The aim of this paper is an ontological clarification of the concept of artefact. The following questions are addressed: 1. Do artefacts constitute an ontological category of objects in its own right, and if so, how could this category be characterized? 2. How do artefacts come into existence? 3. What kind of artefacts are there, and in which relations do they stand to each other? It is argued that artefacts are characterized essentially through their genesis and that they owe their existence to…Read more
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Experience and Analysis: Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium (edited book)Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 2004.
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Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium. August, 8 – 14, 2004, Kirchberg am Wechsel (= Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft 12, Kirchberg am Wechsel: Österreichische Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, 2004).Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 2004.
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42Negative Facts, Ideal Meanings, and IntentionalitySouthern Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 181-191. 2002.This paper is a commentary on David Woodruff Smith's "Intentionality and Picturing: Early Husserl vis-à-vis Early Wittgenstein" (S J Phil 40 (Supp), 2002). I address three questions: 1. What is a fact according to Wittgenstein? What is the relation between states of affairs on the one hand and facts on the other? Is a fact an existing state of affairs (as Smith suggests), or is it the existence of a state of affairs, as most of Wittgenstein's remarks on this matter in the _Tractatus suggest? The…Read more
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Dale Jacquette: Meinongian Logic. The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996, 297 pp (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien. forthcoming.
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194Actualist Meaning ObjectivismProceedings of the European Society of Aesthetics. 2013.ABSTRACT. In this paper, I defend a strong version of actual intentionalism. First, I argue against meaning subjectivism, conventionalism and contextualism. Second, I discuss what I take to be the most important rival to actual intentionalism, namely hypothetical intentionalism. I argue that, although hypothetical intentionalism might be acceptable as a definition of the concept of utterance meaning, it does not provide an acceptable answer to the question of what determines an utterance’s meani…Read more
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1Experience and Analysis, The Proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium (edited book)Öbv&hpt. 2005.
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Erfahrung Und Analyse. Beiträge des 27. Internationalen Wittgenstein-SymPosiums (edited book)Ilwg. 2004.
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322Nonexistent objectsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019.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 Rus…Read more
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Daniel v. WACHTER: Dinge und Eigenschaften. Versuch zur Ontologie. Dettelbach: Röll, 2000, 252 S. (Book Review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 61. 2001.
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37Computer-generated Music, Authorship, and Work IdentityGrazer Philosophische Studien 91 107-130. 2015.In a paper entitled “Computer Composition and Works of Music: Variation on a Theme of Ingarden” (1988), Peter Simons explores some ontological problems that ensue from the use of certain forms of composition software, where the final outcome (the score) is the product of random processes within the computer. Such a method of composition raises, among others, the following questions: What kind of work (if any) has been created? Is it a work of music in the first place? Who is the composer/author?…Read more
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40Amie L. Thomas son, fiction and metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge university press 1999, pp. 187. Isbn: 0-521-64080-6. £35.00 (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 57 (1): 325-344. 1999.The aim of this book is to investigate the nature and ontological status of fictional characters on the one hand (i. e., entities like Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, or Anna Karenina) and literary works on the other. The overall question is: What kinds of objects are fictional characters and literary works, and how are they related to our everyday world? Thomasson advocates a realist, non-reductionist theory of fictitious objects whose main principles are: Fictional characters exist – just as literary…Read more
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107Austrian AestheticsIn Markus Textor (ed.), The Austrian contribution to analytic philosophy, Routledge. 2006.Thinking of problems of aesthetics has a long and strong tradition in Austrian Philosophy. It starts with Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848); it is famously represented by the critic and musicologist Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904); and it is continued within the school of Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), in particular by Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932) and Stephan Witasek (1870-1915). Nowadays the aesthetic writings of Bolzano, Ehrenfels, and Witasek are hardly known, particularly not in the Anglo-Saxon w…Read more
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60The Nonexistent. By Anthony Everett. (Oxford: OUP, 2013. Pp. viii + 246.) (Book Review)Philosophical Quarterly 65 (261): 870-872. 2015.
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31Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 68 (1): 224-227. 2004.
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14Bolzano & Kant (edited book)BRILL. 2012.Inhaltsverzeichnis/Table of Contents Themenschwerpunkt/Special Topic: Bolzano & Kant Gastherausgeber/Guest Editor: Sandra Lapointe Sandra Lapointe: Introduction Sandra Lapointe: Is Logic Formal? Bolzano, Kant and the Kantian Logicians Nicholas F. Stang: A Kantian Reply to Bolzano¿s Critique of Kant¿s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction Clinton Tolley: Bolzano and Kant on the Place of Subjectivity in a Wissenschaftslehre Timothy Rosenkoetter: Kant and Bolzano on the Singularity of Intuitions Waldemar …Read more
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Metaphysics |
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