Alexius Meinong

Alexius Meinong Knights of Handschuchsheim ( born July 17, 1853 in Lviv, † November 27, 1920 in Graz ) was an Austrian philosopher and psychologist, best known for his theory of objects, which is dominated by the ideas of his teacher Franz Brentano.

Alexius Meinong holds a doctorate in history at the University of Vienna, which he referred in the autumn of 1870, then turned, however, after he signed in the fall of 1874 as a regular listener to the law school, the end of the winter semester 1874/75 the philosophy of Franz Brentano to. In 1878, he succeeds by Alois Riehl at the Karl- Franzens- University of Graz, where he was appointed in 1882 to a professorship in philosophy and in 1889 was appointed full professor. Until his death in 1920 he was in Graz, where he founded the Graz School called. 1886/87 he began experimental psychological exercises to hold and set to 1894, the first experimental psychology laboratory in Austria ( " Psychological Laboratory of the University of Graz "). His estate is located in the University Library of Graz.

Core idea of ​​the theory of objects is that every act of perception and generally every experience is " intentional " in the sense that its contents are " directed at something", referring to an "object".

Works

  • About science and its philosophical propaedeutic. Vienna, 1885 (182 pp. )
  • Psychological- ethical investigations on value theory. Festschrift of KK Karl- Franzens- University of the year celebration on 15 November 1894. Graz 1894
  • About the position of the theory of objects in the system of sciences. Leipzig 1907
  • About assumptions. Leipzig, 1910 (403 pp. )
  • About emotional presentation. Vienna, 1917 (181 pp. )
  • In proof of the general law of causality. Vienna 1918 (118 pp. )
  • Philosophers letters - from the scientific correspondence. (Ed. by appointment of R. Inger child ). Graz 1965 (228 pp. )
  • Alexius Meinong, Guido Adler: Alexius Meinong and Guido Adler: a friendship in letters, Amsterdam 1995 (423 pp. ) ISBN 9051838670, 2006.
  • About the experience of the foundations of our knowledge. 2006, ISBN 386550938X

Werkausgabe

  • Meinong, Alexius: Complete Edition. Eds, among others, Rudolf Haller and Roderick Chisholm. 7 vols Graz: Academic Printing and Publishing Institute 1968-1978
  • Meinong, Alexius: lecture notes and fragments. Writings from the estate. Supplementary volume to the complete edition. Eds of Rudolf Haller. Graz: Academic Printing and Publishing Institute 1978
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