Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Ryle

  • Is Anything Ever Settled in Philosophy? Meinong’s Theory of Objects

    Gilbert Ryle once predicted with absurd confidence, "Gegenstandstheorie . . . is dead, buried, and not going to be resurrected."  (Quoted in G. Priest, Towards Non-Being, Oxford, 2005, p. vi, n. 1.) Ryle was wrong, dead wrong, and shown to be wrong just a few years after his cocky prediction.  Variations on Meinong's Theory of Objects flourish like…