Modes of Existence
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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, what makes those statements true (or false) and how can the entities in question be identified? Assessment of the options that have been opened up in these fields since the work of Bertrand Russell and Alexius Meinong at the beginning of the twentieth century remains an important testing-ground for metaphysical principles and intuitions.
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2 - Introduction [Seite 6]
3 - Facts, Formal Objects and OntologyKevin Mulligan [Seite 31]
4 - Fictional and Aesthetic Objects:Meinong's Point of ViewVenanzio Raspa [Seite 47]
5 - Russell's Descriptions andMeinong's Assumptions1Frederick Kroon [Seite 81]
6 - McGinn on ExistencePeter van Inwagen [Seite 105]
7 - The Talk I Was Supposed to Give.Achille C. Varzi [Seite 131]
8 - Two Interpretations of "According to a Story"Maria E. Reicher [Seite 153]
9 - Madame Bovary as a Higher-Order Object*Carola Barbero [Seite 173]
10 - Identity across Time and StoriesFrancesco Orilia [Seite 191]
11 - A Problem about Reference in Fiction*Giuseppe Spolaore [Seite 221]
