Routley / Eckert Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond

The Sylvan Jungle - Volume 1
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-78793-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 394, 620 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Synthese Library

In this first volume of

The Sylvan Jungle

, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, "Exploring Meinong's Jungle," of Richard Routley's 1000-plus page book, 

Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond. 

Going against the Quinean orthodoxy, Routley’s aim was to support Meinong’s idea that we can truthfully refer to non-existent and even impossible objects, like Superman, unicorns and the (infamous) round-square cupola on Berkeley College. The tools of non-classical logic at Routley’s disposal enabled him to update Meinong’s project for a new generation.

This volume begins with an Introduction from Dominic Hyde, “The ‘Jungle Book’ in Context,” an essay that situates 

Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond 

historically. We provide the original Preface by Routley, followed by Chapter 1: “

Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond

.” In Chapter 2, Nicholas Griffin argues that Sylvan’s project was insufficiently radical with his essay, “Why the Original Theory of Items Didn’t (Quite) Go Far Enough.” Sylvan revisits his position from this time in Chapter 3, with his article, “Re-Exploring Item-Theory.” Filippo Casati, who has worked in the Routley Archives then takes up the question of the future of Sylvan’s research program in his essay, “The Future Perfect of 

Exploring Meinong’s Jungle

.”

Iconic and iconoclastic Australian philosopher Richard Routley (né Sylvan) published 

Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond

 in 1980. This work has fallen out of print, yet without great fanfare it has influenced two generations of philosophers and logicians.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Routley, Richard

Eckert, Maureen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brady, Ross

Casati, Filippo

Griffin, Nicholas

Hyde, Dominic

Mortensen, Chris

Priest, Graham

Weber, Zach

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Preface.- Introduction: The Jungle Book in context – Hyde.- Original Material.- First Edition Front Matter.- Preface and Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Exploring Meinong’s jungle and beyond. I. Items and descriptions.- Bibliography.- Supplementary Bibliography.- Supplementary Essays.- Why item theory doesn’t (quite) go far enough – Griffin.- Re-exploring item theory – Sylvan.- The future perfect of Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond – Casati.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Routley/Sylvan (1935-1996), a New Zealand born philosopher, who was a research fellow at the Australian National University at the time of his death, rose to prominence for his work in the development of Relevance Logic, Deep Ecology and a revised and improved Meinongian ontology known as noneism.   An iconoclastic figure in Australian philosophy, Routley/Sylvan s legacy thrives in the views of students and colleagues worldwide.
Maureen Eckert is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UMASS Dartmouth whose editorial works include
Fate, Time and Language: David Foster Wallace s Essay on Free Will
(2010),
Freedom 
and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace (2015) and
Theories of Mind: Introductory Readings
(2006). She is an advocate of non-classical logic, focusing on instructional methods for presenting it in undergraduate philosophy curricula.