Objects and Pseudo-Objects ─ Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap

Scholars of philosophy, ontology in particular, explore and extend the debate over whether abstract notions count as actual objects or pseudo-objects that only seem to exist because of linguistic convenience. In sections on ontological parsimony, objecthood prodigality, and modes of being, they grapple with such topics as Kotarbinski's strong minimalist ontology, objects as posits from a phenomenological point of view, Meinong and early Husserl on objects and states of affairs, Husserl's way out of Frege's jungle, and Nicolai Harmann's theory of levels of reality. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

B. Leclercq, University of Liege, Belgium.
S. Richard, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
D. Seron, University of Liege, Belgium.