Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being

Preface (with Acknowledgments).- Introduction: Meinong and Philosophical Analysis.- Chapter 1. Meinong's Life and Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intended Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong.-Chapter 3. Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption.- Chapter 4. Außersein of the Pure Object.- Chapter 5. Constitutive (Nuclear) and Extraconstitutive (Extranuclear) Properties.- Chapter 6. Meditations on Meinong's Golden Mountain.- Chapter 7. Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory.- Chapter 8. Meinong's Concept of Implexive Being and Non-Being.- Chapter 9. About Nothing.- Chapter 10. Tarski's Quantificational Semantics and Meinongian Object Theory Domains.- Chapter 11. Reflections on Mally's Heresy.- Chapter 12. Virtual Relations and Meinongian Abstractions.- Chapter 13. Truth and Fiction in Lewis's Critique of Meinongian Semantics.- Chapter 14. Anti-Meinongian Actualist Meaning of Fiction in Kripke's 1973 John Locke Lectures.- Chapter 15. Metaphysics of Meinongian Aesthetic Value.- Chapter 16. Quantum Indeterminacy and Physical Reality as a Relevantly Predicationally Incomplete Existent Entity.- Chapter 17. Confessions of a Meinongian Logician 18. Meinongian Dark Ages and Renaissance.- Appendix: Object Theory Logic and Mathematics Two Essays by Ernst Mally (Translation and Critical Commentary).- Notes.- References.- Index.

Offers a collection of essays on the philosophy of Alexius Meinong, a figure of increasing importance in contemporary philosophical logic and semantics Chapters show a natural progression of topics, beginning with Meinong's life and progressing to the main lines of his philosophy Provides a useful companion to any of the recent formalizations of Meinongian object theory

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Dale Jacquette is Lehrstuhl ordentlicher Professur für Philosophie, Abteilung Logik und theoretische Philosophie (Senior Professorial Chair in the Division for Logic and Theoretical Philosophy), at Universität Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and has recently published Logic and How it Gets That Way (2010), Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness (2009), Ontology (2002), David Hume's Critique of Infinity (2001) and Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (1998). He has twice been recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Forschungsstipendium, a J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecture Chair in Contemporary Philosophy of Language and a Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study research award.