Sunday, March 29, 2009

Emanuele Marini and Venanzio Raspa


Venanzio Raspa delivered a lecture on Non-Aristotelian logic and another one on Meinongian aesthetics and ontology, on March 23rd and 25th in Ljubljana. We had nice time together. I tried to push for Meinongian monism on two counts: in the area of ideal objects, there is superset of all properties, and there is an immense ordered range of possible objects; all this is parsimonious. In the area of the empirical world, infima are bought just for reason of antirelativism according to Raspa. This I see as a reductio of parts and an actual acceptance of monism. Now Raspa asks: what is the relation between ideal and empirical realms? Emanuele Marini from Milano is fluent in Slovenian language, he had contacts to Raspa, but met him for the first time in Ljubljana. Emanuele is writing a book on France Veber, where the main point is affirmation of Veber's enlargements of objects to desiderativa and dignitativa, a distinction specifying Brentano's Gemuetsbewegungen and adopted by Meinong. I stressed that this goes together with another important Slovene philosopher, Ernst Mally (born in Kranj with career in Graz), the originator of the deontic logic. Both Slovene philosophers Veber and Mally pushed for extenstion of the area of objects of the higher order. The lower photo shows myself with Raspa, the upper photo with Marini. 

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Venanzio Raspa on Meinong


I met Venanzio in Germany at a Dresden semiotic congress conference in the section dedicated to Meinong. He paid German organizers the fee for publishing my paper that never appeared in print. Now Professor Raspa from Urbino University Italy will be my guest at the Ljubljana University, Filozofska fakulteta, Askerceva 2, Ljubljana, room 434. On Monday, March 23rd, 11:20am-1pm he will deliver a lecture on At the Origin of New Logic: the Imaginary Non-Aristotelian Logic of N.A. Vasilev. On Wednesday March 25th he will talk on Aesthetic and Ontology: Fictional and Aesthetic Objects from a Meinongian Point of View, at 2:40p-4:20p and 6:50p-8:30p. The photo shows Marjetica and Frane.