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55Gegenstandslose GedankenGrazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 501-531. 1985.Thoughts may have a subject — they may concern a certain topic —without having an object in the sense of being directed upon a referent. It is argued that, once this distinction is acknowledged, a third position between Meinong and Russell can be established. There will then be objectless thoughts which need not be false in view of the non-existence of their purported referents. But there will also be object-dependent thoughts which have their referents necessarily. Neither logically proper name…Read more
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42Die natur Des subjektiven: Einige bemerkungen zu kutscheras objektivismus-kritik (review)Erkenntnis 48 (2-3): 183-188. 1998.Kutschera's criticism of an objectivist theory of mind is shown to rest on a premise which an objectivist need not accept, namely, that there is a deep metaphysical distinction between the physical and the psychological domain. This premise can be rejected on naturalistic grounds. Referring to the work of Rosenthal, Dennett and Davidson, it is argued that less metaphysically loaded explanations can be given of what is subjective about the mind.
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83The Mind of Donald Davidson (edited book)Netherlands: Rodopi. 1989.WHAT IS PRESENT TO THE MIND? Donald DAVIDSON The University of California at Berkeley There is a sense in which anything we think about is, ...
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1Rezension zu: Michael Dummett: Ursprünge der analytischen Philosophie. Übersetzt von Joachim Schulte. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988, 200 S (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (3): 337-344. 1991.
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53Intentionality, Information, and ExperienceIn Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain, Ontos Verlag. pp. 12--9. 2009.The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and is still a dominant subject in modern philosophy and science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind," but believe the "puzzles" to be puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. Philosophers also believe that reduction …Read more
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7Wittgenstein: Eine Neubewertung/Towards a Re-evaluation (edited book)Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.An läßlich der I 00. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Ludwig Wittgenstein, dem wohl bedeutendsten Philosophen unseres Jahrhunderts und Namensgeber der veranstaltenden Gesellschaft, wurde das 14. Internationale Symposium in Kirchberg gänzlich unter die programmatische Perspektive einer Neubewertung seiner Philosophie gestellt. Dem Anlasse entsprechend war dieses Symposium das weitaus größte aller bisherigen mit nahezu 600 Teilnehmern und 230 Vorträgen. Nur 138 davon konnten in die Akten des 14. Sy…Read more
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Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift Für Analytische Philosophie. Gegründet von Rudolf Haller (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2004.
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89What is pre-reflective self-consciousness? Brentano's theory of inner consciousness revisitedIn Denis Fisette & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Themes from Brentano, Editions Rodopi. pp. 44--41. 2013.
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25Erratum to: Young children’s protest: what it can (not) tell us about early normative understandingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1): 179-179. 2017.
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9Twardowski's Distinction between Actions and ProductsIn Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 23--34. 1998.
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51Holism: A Consumer Update (edited book)Rodopi. 1993.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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15Gegenstandslose GedankenGrazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 501-531. 1985.Thoughts may have a subject — they may concern a certain topic —without having an object in the sense of being directed upon a referent. It is argued that, once this distinction is acknowledged, a third position between Meinong and Russell can be established. There will then be objectless thoughts which need not be false in view of the non-existence of their purported referents. But there will also be object-dependent thoughts which have their referents necessarily. Neither logically proper name…Read more
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33The puzzle of mirror self-recognitionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (2): 279-304. 2018.
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56Semantic holism is here to stayIn Abraham Zvie Bar-On (ed.), Grazer Philosophische Studien, Distributed in the U.s.a. By Humanities Press. pp. 1-16. 1986.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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25Innere Wahrnehmbarkeit und intentionale Inexistenz als Kennzeichen psychischer PhänomeneBrentano Studien 4 131-153. 1992.Kant offered a subtle theory of consciousness and self-knowledge which articulated the intuition that consciousness is a mode of being in a mental state, as opposed to a property of that state. This paper develops this theory and argues that McDowell's treatment of these issues in "Mind" and "World" overlooks the resources of Kant's views. McDowell conflates consciousness and self-consciousness, leading him to formulate too demanding a constraint on rational concept use. Kant's theory can be dev…Read more
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1Wittgenstein - Towards a Re-Evaluation: Proceedings of the 14th International Wittgenstein-Symposium, Vol. I (edited book)Holder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.
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8Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift Für Analytische Philosophie (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2002.Inhaltsverzeichnis/Table of Contents Abhandlungen/Articles Massimiliano Vignolo: Why Non-Factualists Should Love Conceptual Role Semantics Jeffrey Goodman: Fictionalia as Modal Artifacts Alberto Voltolini: Against Against Fictional Realism Roderick Batchelor: Grounds and Consequences Timm Lampert and Michael Baumgartner: The Problem of Validity Proofs Ish Haji: On the Direct Argument for the Incompatibility of Determinism and Moral Responsibility Matthias Neuber: Philosophie der modernen Physik …Read more
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36What is Wrong with the Building Block Theory of Language?Grazer Philosophische Studien 36 (1): 79-95. 1989.It is argued that Davidson's basic objection to the Building Block Method in semantics is neither that it gives the wrong explanation of how a first language is learned nor that it assigns a meaning to Single words prior to interpreting a whole language. The arguments against Fregean concepts and truth-values as the references of predicates and sentences are found to be equally superficial as the arguments against a primitive notion reference defmed in causal terms.Davidson's basic objection tur…Read more
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24Gegen den Primat des IntentionalenGrazer Philosophische Studien 28 (1): 105-131. 1986.Die beste Erklärung für den Gegenstandsbezug unserer Gedanken erhalten wir, so die These meines Aufsatzes, indem wir die Semantik jener Ausdrücke studieren, mit denen wir uns auf Individuen beziehen. Für diese methodologische Entscheidung sprechen dreierlei Gründe: Erstens die Uneinheitlichkeit der Kategorie singulärer Terme; zweitens die Notwendigkeit, zwischen einem starken und einem schwachen Begriff des de re Glaubens zu unterscheiden; sowie drittens die Unmöglichkeit, psychische Phänomene z…Read more
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745Brentano on TruthIn U. Kriegel (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Brentano and the Brentano School, Routledge. 2017.How to understand Brentano’s account of truth is a question of some controversy. A number of different views have been put forward as positions that Brentano held at some stage in his career. The received view has it that the early Brentano subscribed to a form of correspondence theory which he later rejected in favor of a definition of truth in terms of correct judging, where the correctness of a judgment is defined in terms of the notion of self-evidence (see Kraus 1966, Szrednicki 1965, Stegm…Read more
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15Pretend play in early childhood: the road between mentalismIn Michael Beran, Johannes Brandl, Josef Perner & Joëlle Proust (eds.), The Foundations of Metacognition, Oxford University Press. pp. 146. 2012.
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6Holism: A Consumer UpdateGrazer Philosophische Studien 46 (1): 1-16. 1993.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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4Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol 90 – 2014: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2015.Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition
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