Psychological Themes in the School of Alexius Meinong

May 26, 2016 - May 27, 2016
Phenomenologies Research Group, University of Liège

Liège
Belgium

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Liliana Albertazzi
University of Trento
Janette Friedrich
University of Geneva
Carlo Ierna
Utrecht University
Bruno Langlet
University of Aix-Marseille
Riccardo Martinelli
University of Trieste
Erwin Tegtmeier
Universität Mannheim

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Alexius Meinong and the members of his school are best known for having opened up a new area of investigation called the 'object theory'. The logical and metaphysical implications of this theory attracted much attention within the last decades. Yet comparatively little is known about the psychological background against which the object theory emerged. It is true that Meinong himself soon came to conceive of the object theory as a completely autonomous discipline. Still, the psychological analysis of our mental states seems to have been a privileged pathway to the so-called 'mere object' of the object theory. Moreover, Meinong and his students arguably share the view (notably held by Franz Brentano) that the rise of a scientific philosophy first and foremost requires psychological-descriptive investigations. Consequently, it is no surprise that they ran descriptive and experimental analyses which gave rise to a number of psychology-based theories, including the theory of assumptions, the value theory, the theory of knowledge, or the theory of relations.

Stressing the philosophical significance of such psychological investigations, the conference aims at exploring the various connexions between the object theory, the researches led in the Graz psychological laboratory, and the psychology-based theories supported in the Meinong school. A special focus will be put on the articulation between psychological or phenomenological description, psychological experimentation and conceptual analysis.

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