{"product_id":"russell-vs-meinong-9780415808590","title":"Russell vs. Meinong","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA century after On Denoting' was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and controversies concerning contemporary Russellian and Meinongian theories, many of them involving issues that simply did not occur to the original protagonists.  This work provides an overview of the latest historical scholarship on the two philosophers as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing the current incarnations of their theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In conclusion... the editors have produced a highly attractive, concise collection of essays which succeeds in bringing together a variety of perspectives concerning Russell's \"On Denoting\" and the Russell vs. Meinong debate. Each of the essays in this book is well-crafted and rich in useful insights on a number of theoretically interesting points.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Russell and Meinong in Retrospect 1. Logic and Denotation \u003cem\u003eAlasdair Urquhart \u003c\/em\u003e2. Antirealism and the Theory of Descriptions \u003cem\u003eGraham Stevens \u003c\/em\u003e3. Russell vs. Frege on Definite Descriptions as Singular Terms \u003cem\u003eFrancis Jeffry Pelletier and Bernard Linsky \u003c\/em\u003e4. A Cantorian Argument Against Frege’s and Early Russell’s Theories of Descriptions \u003cem\u003eKevin C. Klement \u003c\/em\u003e5. ‘On Denoting’: Appearance and Reality \u003cem\u003eGideon Makin \u003c\/em\u003e6. Explaining G. F. Stout’s Reaction to Russell’s ‘On Denoting’ \u003cem\u003eOmar W. Nasim \u003c\/em\u003e7. Russell on ‘the’ in the Plural \u003cem\u003eDavid Bostock\u003c\/em\u003e 8. Psychological Content and Indeterminacy with Respect to Being: Two Notes on the Russell-Meinong Debate \u003cem\u003eJohann Christian Marek \u003c\/em\u003e9. Meditations on Meinong’s Golden Mountain \u003cem\u003eDale Jacquette \u003c\/em\u003e10. Rethinking Item Theory \u003cem\u003eNicholas Griffin \u003c\/em\u003e11. Contra Meinong \u003cem\u003ePeter Loptson \u003c\/em\u003e12. Who is Afraid of Imaginary Objects? \u003cem\u003eGabriele Contessa \u003c\/em\u003e13. Russell’s Definite Descriptions \u003cem\u003ede re Gregory C. Landini \u003c\/em\u003e14. Quantifying in and Anti-Essentialism \u003cem\u003eMichael Nelson \u003c\/em\u003e15. Points, Complexes, Complex Points, and a Yacht \u003cem\u003eNathan Salmon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018197041495,"sku":"9780415808590","price":49.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415808590.jpg?v=1750775988","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/russell-vs-meinong-9780415808590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}