Learning objectives
The aim of the class is not only to comunicate knowledge on the development of both the analytic and the continental traditions, it is also to draw the students' attention at the methods of philosophical argumentation and analysis as well as improve their knowledge on some basic notions of metaphysics and ontology.
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Course unit content
In the seminar we will focus on the debate between Alexius Meinong and Bertrand Russell on the subsistance of non-existing objects. <br />
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In the first part we will concentrate on Meinong's theory of objects. We have a close look at the background of the theory: Franz Brentano's notion of intentionality (and the critique raised by Twardowski, Husserl, together with later formulations of the theory by Brentano). <br />
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In the second part we will analyse the development (and the discontinuity) in Bertrand Russell's theory and his critique of Meinong.
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Bibliography
Meinong, Alexius. Teoria dell'oggetto. trad. da V. Raspa. Genova: Parnaso, 2003. <br />
Russell, Bertrand. "On Denoting". <em>Mind</em> 14 (1905), pp. 479-493.<br />
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Other texts will be announced in class.
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