{"id":2811,"date":"2020-11-23T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/23\/is-anything-ever-settled-in-philosophy-meinongs-theory-of-objects\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:22:38","slug":"is-anything-ever-settled-in-philosophy-meinongs-theory-of-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/23\/is-anything-ever-settled-in-philosophy-meinongs-theory-of-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anything Ever Settled in Philosophy? Meinong’s Theory of Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ryle\"<\/a>Gilbert Ryle once predicted with absurd confidence, "Gegenstandstheorie<\/em> . . . is dead, buried, and not going to be resurrected."  (Quoted in G. Priest, Towards Non-Being<\/em>, Oxford, 2005, p. vi, n. 1.) Ryle was wrong, dead<\/em> wrong, and shown to be wrong just a few years after his cocky prediction.  Variations on Meinong's Theory of Objects flourish like never before due to the efforts of such brilliant philosophers as Butchvarov, Castaneda, Lambert, Parsons, Priest, Routley\/Sylvan, and Zalta, just to mention those that come first to mind. And the Rylean cockiness has had an ironic upshot: his logical behaviorism is temporarily dead while Meinongianism thrives.  But Ryle too will be raised if my parallel law of philosophical experience — Philosophy always resurrects its dead — holds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parallel to what? <\/span><\/p>\n

Parallel to Etienne Gilson's famous observation that "Philosophy always buries its undertakers."  That is the first of his "laws of philosophical experience." (The Unity of Philosophical Experience<\/em>, Scribners, 1937, p. 306) As a metaphilosophical pronunciamento<\/em> it is hard to beat.  It is equally true that philosophy always resurrects its dead.  Let that be my first law.  The history of natural science is littered with corpses, none of which is an actual or potential Lazarus.  Not so in philosophy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It may be worth noting that if philosophy resurrects its dead then it can be expected to raise the anti-philosophical (and therefore philosophical) positions of philosophy's would-be undertakers.  Philosophy, she's a wily bitch: you can't outflank her and she always ends up on top.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Is Anything Ever Settled in Philosophy? Meinong’s Theory of Objects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482,20,589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meinong-matters","category-metaphilosophy","category-ryle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}