Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty

294 Pages·1990·7.79 MB·English

by  Roderick M. Chisholm (auth.)

MIND, MEANING AND METAPHYSICS
PRIMARY SOURCES IN PHENOMENOLOGY
COORDINATING EDITOR: KARL SCHUHMANN
BOARD OF EDITORS: KEVIN MULLIGAN, PETER SIMONS AND BARRY SMITH
Volume 3
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Mind. meaning. and metaphysics the philosophy and theory of language
of Anton Marty I edlted by Kevin Mulligan.
p. cm. -- (Primary sources in phenomenology; v. 3)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Marty. Anton. 1847-1914--Contributions in philosophy of
language. 2. Marty. Anton. 1847-1914--Contributions in metaphysics.
3. Languages--Philosophy. 4. MetaphYSiCS. I. Mulligan. Kevin.
II. Series: Primary sources in phenomenology; 3.
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Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
The Philosophy
and
Theory of Language of
Anton Marty
Edited by
KEVIN MULLIGAN
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
Contents
Preface Xl
Abbreviations Employed in the text xii
Brentano and Marty on Content: A Synthesis suggested by Brentano
by Roderick M. Chisholm 1
1 Brentano's Final Vicw 1
2 Attribution in Modo Recto and in Modo Obliquo 4
3 Object and Content 5
4 Other Intentional Attitudes 6
5 Immanent Objects and Transcendent Objects 7
6 Conclusion S
Marty's Philosophical Grammar by Kevin Mulligan 11
1 Introduction 11
2 The Descriptive Psychology of Meaning: Linguistic Functions 12
3 Propositions Show What would be the Case were they True 16
4 Vagueness 20
5 Meaning Change, Inner Form and Universals 21
6 Marty and Wittgenstein: Two Conceptions of Philosophical
Grammar 24
Meaning and Expression: Marty and Grice on Intentional Semantics
by Frank Liedtke 29
1 Introduction 29
2 Philosophy of Language as a General Theory 32
3 Natural and Non-Natural Meaning 35
4 Primary and Secondary Intentions 40
5 Auto-Semantic Language Devices 45
6 Conclusion 48
Vll
viii Contents
Marty on Form and Content in Language by Karl-Friedrich Kiesow 51
1 Inner Speech Form in some of Marty's Early Works 51
2 Logic, Grammar and Psychology 54
3 Form and Content in Marty's Later Works 58
4 Some Fundamental Tenets of Universal Grammar 61
Why a Proper Name has a Meaning: Marty and Landgrebe vs.
Kripke by Gottfried Gabriel 67
1 Preliminaries 67
2 Kripke's View 67
3 The Question of the Semantic Status of Proper Names 68
4 Meaning and Lexical Meaning 69
5 Reference and Meaning in Marty 70
6 Ambiguity and Vagueness 72
7 Landgrebe's Solution 72
8 Conclusion 74
The Categorical and the Thetic Judgement Reconsidered by S.-Y.
Kuroda 77
1 Marty and Transformational Grammar 77
2 Categorical and Thetic Judgements 79
3 Reinterpreting the Categorical-Thetic Distinction 82
4 Conclusion 87
Classical and Modern Work on Universals: The Philosophical Back-
ground and Marty's Contribution by Elmar Holenstein 89
1 Categories of Meaning vs. Categories of Expression 89
2 Relativism and Colour 92
3 Natural Non-Absolute Universals 94
Marty and Magnus on Colours by Wolfgang Wenning 103
Brentano and Marty: An Inquiry into Being and Truth by Barry
Smith 111
1 Aristotle and Brentano 111
2 Existence and Reality 113
3 Bases and Operations 119
4 Collectives are Non-Real 123
5 Relations are Non-Real 125
6 Space is Non-Real 128
7 States of Affairs are Non-Real 130
8 On the Origins of our Concepts of Existence and Truth 131
Contents IX
9 A Correspondence Theory of Intentionality 134
10 The Ontology of Truth 136
11 Wertverhalte or Value-Contents 142
12 A Postscript on Martian Aesthetics 143
Marty on Grounded Relations by Ingvary Johansson 151
Marty on Time by Peter Simons 157
1 Introduction 157
2 Tasks of a Philosophy of Time 158
3 Marty on the Ontology of Time 159
4 Marty on the Consciousness of Time 163
5 Conclusion 169
Marty's Theory of Space by Rosaria Egidi 171
1 Introduction 171
2 Marty's Two Basic Metaphysical Theses 173
3 A Sketch of Marty's Argument 174
4 Conclusion 179
Judgement-Contents by Edgar Morscher 181
1 Preliminary Remark 181
2 Conceptual Framework 181
3 Marty's Judgement-Contents 184
4 Comments 194
5 Final Remark 195
Contents of Consciousness and States of Affairs: Daubert and Marty
by Karl Schuhmann 197
1 Phenomenologists and Brentanists 197
2 Marty on Subjectless Sentences 200
3 Daubert's Discussion of Marty 202
4 Shortcomings in Marty 206
5 Marty's Theory in Phenomenological Perspective 209
Marty and the Lvov-Warsaw School by Jan Wolenski 215
Two Letters from Marty to Husserl by Kevin Mulligan and Karl
Schuhmann 225
A Bibliography of Works by and on Anton Marty by Niels W.
Bokhove and Savina Raynaud 237
x Contents
1 Works by Marty 239
2 Works on Marty 264
Index of Names 285
Index of Subjects 287
Preface
Phenomenology was in large part the discovery of Edmund Husserl, whose
Logical Investigations of 1900/01 are normally regarded as the work that
launched the phenomenological movement. Yet Husserl's phenomenology, in
particular in the form in which it is set out in this his most important
contribution to philosophy, is itself part of an Austrian philosophical tradi
tion inspired by Brentano and continued, in very different ways, by Meinong,
Stumpf, Twardowski, Ehrenfels, Husserl - and Marty. Like Brentano and all
his heirs Marty's philosophical interests were in the philosophy of mind,
where this is taken to include or at least ground the philosophy of language,
and analytic metaphysics. It is Marty's discussions of topics in these two
areas that provide the contributions to this volume with their subject-matter.
The papers by Roderick Chisholm, S.-Y. Kuroda, Barry Smith, Peter Simons,
Rosaria Egidi, Karl Schuhmann, Elmar Holenstein, Edgar Morscher, Wolf
gang Wenning and myself were presented at the 1984 conference on Anton
Marty in Fribourg, Switzerland. Our host in Fribourg was Guido Kung, the
conference was made possible by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. I should like to
thank both for their help.
Geneva, April 1988 KEVIN MULLIGAN
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