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We mean in this contribution to discuss Cassirer’s analysis of the Platonic function of the eidolon with a particular focus on the Marburg interpretation of this issue in a thinker such as Paul Natorp ever so important to Cassirer.
Furthermore, we are going to inquire into the function of transcendental schematism with a focus on the cognitive operation of (the) schematism that is determined through the ontological perspective that becomes apparent from reflections such as we can envisage in both Meinong and Quine.
On our way we shall confront the issue concerning nowadays ontological treatment of conceptual schematism and its possible semantic-cognitive interpretation. In this regard, the starting point will have to be Cassirer’s analysis of schematism, namely of the ‘depictive’ and productive conception of transcendental schematism, especially in order to outline the conceptual analysis of the theory of judgement and knowledge.
We mean to consider the following phases: (1) The Marburg derivation of Cassirer’s way of conceiving of and treating a schematism of Platonic-Aristotelic origin, with a particular focus on works such as “Substance and Function”(1910) and “Eidos und Eidolon: das Problem des Schönen und der Kunst in Platons Dialogen” (within the framework of Cassirer’s dialogue with Bauch reference will be made to the development of the former’s analyses of Kant’s philosophy; (2) Meinong’s ontology of relationships and complexions and expressions of the meaning of ‘transcendental schematism’; (3) the interpretation of conceptual schematism in analytical philosophy with reference to the issue of semantic intensionality starting from Quine’s conceptual schemes.
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Cfr. Christian Möckel, La teoria dei fenomeni di base di Cassirer e il suo rapporto con Husserl e Natorp, in Besoli, Stefano – Ferrari, Massimo – Guidetti, Luca (eds.), Neokantismo e fenomenologia. Logica, psicologia, cultura e teoria della conoscenza. Atti del convegno internazionale. L’Aquila, 29–31 marzo 2001, Macerata, Quodlibet (Quaderni di Discipline Filosofiche), 2002; Helmuth Holzhey, Il concetto kantiano di esperienza. Ricerche filosofiche delle fonti e dei significati, Le Lettere, Firenze, 1999; Werner Flach-Helmuth Holzhey, Erkenntnistheorie und Logik im Neukantianismus, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1980; Ernst Cassirer, Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969, trad. it. di Eraldo Arnaud e Gian Antonio De Toni, Sostanza e funzione. Sulla teoria della relatività di Einstein, La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1999.
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Cfr. Ernst Cassirer, Filosofia delle forme simboliche, 3, I, cap V; Ernst Wolfang Orth-Helmuth Holzhey, Neukantianismus. Perspektiven und Probleme, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1994; Gianna Gigliotti, Avventure e disavventure del trascendentale, Guida, Napoli, 1987.
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Cfr. Massimo Ferrari, Ernst Cassirer. Dalla scuola di Marburgo alla filosofia della cultura, Olschki, Firenze, 1996, particularly chapts. III; V; VI e VII; Ernst Cassirer, Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1923, ital. transl. by Eraldo Arnaud, Filosofia delle forme simboliche III, 1, La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1989; Ernst Cassirer, Zur Metaphysik der symbolischen Formen, Hamburg, Meiner, 1993, ital trans. by Giulio Raio, Metafisica delle forme simboliche. Il problema del simbolo come problema fondamentale delle forme, Sansoni, Firenze, 2003.
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Cfr. Alexius Meinong, Hume Studien II: Zur Relationstheorie, ital. transl. by Roberto Brigati, Empirismo e nominalismo. Studi su Hume, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze, 1991; Cfr. Albertazzi Liliana- Jacquette Dale- Poli Roberto, (eds.), The School of Alexius Meinong, Alderschot, Agate, 2001.
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Cfr. Amstrong David Malet, Nominalism and Realism, vol. I: Universals and Scientific Realism, Cambridge-London- New York-Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1977; Kenneth Barber, Meinong’s Hume Studies Part II. Meinong’s Analysis of Relations, in “Philosophy and Phenomenological Research”, 31, pp. 564–584.
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Cfr. Stefano Besoli, La rappresentazione e il suo oggetto: dalla psicologia descrittiva alla metafisica, in Kazimier Twardoswski, Quodlibet, Macerata, 1988.
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Cfr. Marina Manotta, L’obiettivo di Meinong tra proposizione e stato di cose, in “Discipline filosofiche”, VII, 1997, pp. 211–237; Michele Lenoci, La concezione dell’obiettivo in Alexius Meinong, in “Discipline filosofiche”, VII, 1997, pp. 259–279; Johann Christian Marek, Meinong on Psychological Content, in Albertazzi-Jacquette-Poli, (edd.), op.cit;
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The relationship with Hume in contrast to the analysis of the perception in Lockean sense was the main topic of Meinong’s essay On the theory of relations. Cfr. Alexius Meinong, 1882, pp. 75–195, particularly p. 90 and ss.
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Albertazzi Liliana-Libardi Massimo- Poli Roberto, (eds.) The School of Franz Brentano, Dordrecht- Boston- London: Kluwer, 1996; Vincenzo Fano, la filosofia dell’evidenza. Saggio sull’epistemologia di Franz Brentano, Clueb, Bologna, 1993; Francesca Modenato, Coscienza ed essere in Franz Brentano, Patron, Bologna, 1979.
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Francesca Modenato, Meinong and Husserl on Objects and Meaning of Expressions, in Axiomathes, n. 8, 1997, 143–162; Ead., L’obiettivo e la fattualità secondo Meinong, in “Rivista di Storia della Filosofia”, n 3, 143–162; Massimo Libardi, Psicologismo logico e logiche psicologiche, in “Axiomathes”, 8, pp. 307–366; Luigi Dappiano, L’idealismo di Oxbridge tra Lotze e Meinong. A proposito della filosofia analitica. in “Axiomathes”, 5, 2–3, 279–304.
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Cf. Alexius Meinong, Gli oggetti di ordine superiore in rapporto alla percezione interna.
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Cf. Willard van Orman Quine, Word and Object.
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R. M. Montague Pragmatics and intensional Logic.
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Cfr. Willard van Orman Quine, The Problem of Meaning in Linguistic,1951; Speaking of Objects, 1958, reprinted in Ontological relativity and Other Essays, New York, Columbia University Press, 1969; Meaning and Traslation, 1959.
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Cf. Willard van Orman Quine, On the Reason for Indeterminacy of Translation, in “Journal of Philosophy”, 67, 1970, p. 179 and ff.; Ontological Relativity and Other Essays.
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Sgueglia, G. (2014). Ontopoiesis of Eidolon and Transcendental Schematism in Cassirer and the Concept of Ontology in Meinong and Quine. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Space and Time. Analecta Husserliana, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02039-6_14
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