Existence, Culture, and Persons: The Ontology of Roman Ingarden (Phenomenology & Mind)

Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) belonged to those phenomenologists who never accepted Husserl's transcendental idealism. He devoted a great part of his intellectual energy to the "preparatory" analytical studies in which he hoped to develop an ontological framework suitable for an ultimate refuta­tion of Husserl's idealistic doctrine. In these works we find a rich arsenal of ontological tools which is interesting even for those philosophers who are not interested in the subtleties of the Husserlian tradition or esoteric dialectics of the idealism / realism debate. Contributors: Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (Szczecin and Salzburg), Gregor Haefliger (Fribourg), Guido Küng (Fribourg), Jeff Mitscherling (Guelph), Andrzej Póltawski (Cracow), Peter Simons (Leeds), Edward Swiderski (Fribourg), Amie L. Thomasson (Miami), Daniel von Wachter (Munich). Main description: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) belonged to those phenomenologists who never accepted Husserl's transcendental idealism. He devoted a great part of his intellectual energy to the "preparatory" analytical studies in which he hoped to develop an ontological framework suitable for an ultimate refutation of Husserl's idealistic doctrine. In these works we find a rich arsenal of ontological tools which is interesting even for those philosophers who are not interested in the subtleties of the Husserlian tradition or esoteric dialectics of the idealism / realism debate. Contributors: Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (Szczecin and Salzburg), Gregor Haefliger (Fribourg), Guido Küng (Fribourg), Jeff Mitscherling (Guelph), Andrzej Póltawski (Cracow), Peter Simons (Leeds), Edward Swiderski (Fribourg), Amie L. Thomasson (Miami), Daniel von Wachter (Munich) Table of Contents Introduction Substances, States, Processes, Events.Ingarden and the Analytic Theory of Objects∗GREGOR HAEFLIGER / GUIDO KÜNG Ingarden and the Ontology of Dependence*PETER SIMONS Roman Ingarden’s Ontology: Existential Dependence, Substances,Ideas, and Other Things Empiricists Do Not Like*DANIEL VON WACHTER Brentano, Husserl und Ingardenüber die intentionalen GegenständeARKADIUSZ CHRUDZIMSKI Ingarden and the Ontology of Cultural ObjectsAMIE L. THOMASSON Concretization, Literary Criticism, and the Lifeof the Literary Work of ArtJEFF MITSCHERLING Ingarden: From Phenomenological Realism to Moral RealismEDWARD SWIDERSKI Roman Ingardens Ontologie und die WeltANDRZEJ PÓŁTAWSKI Roman Ingardens Ontologie und die WeltANDRZEJ PÓŁTAWSKI Contributors Index of Names The series is devoted to monographs and anthologies on Austrian philosophy (Bolzano, Brentano, Meinong and others) as well as on phenomenology and its history in general. Moreover, the series is open to a wide variety of different approaches in the philosophy of mind.