Objects and Pseudo-Objects: Ontological Deserts and Jungles From Brentano to Carnap by Leclercq Bruno Richard Sebastien Seron Denis

Author:Leclercq, Bruno,Richard, Sebastien,Seron, Denis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Schapp underlines here three important aspects of Munich phenomenology: its specific manner of philosophical investigation, wherein the analysis of meaning, of what we mean (meinen) by an expression, is put at the forefront;171 its particular conception of ideal objects and, finally, its conception of perception, in which sensations are considered irrelevant to phenomenological analysis.

Kevin Mulligan has discussed the first aspect in numerous papers.172 In (Fréchette 2013), I deal with the third aspect of Munich phenomenology according to Schapp. In the present paper, I will try to shed some light on the second aspect pointed out by Schapp, namely the Munich-Göttingen conception of essences, laws of essence, and ideal objects. I will first start with a preliminary account of their conception of the synthetic a priori at the basis of their conception of essence (§2); I will then offer a first characterization of this conception, which I will label as metaphysical realism (§3), highlighting its key concept: foundation (§4). In the last four sections (§§5-8), I discuss different outcomes of this conception of essences: the nature of laws of essences (§5), different categories of essences (§6) and anumericity (§7). Since the accounts dealt with in the present paper are barely known, even to phenomenological circles, the aim of this paper is merely descriptive. The point here is to grasp the ‘essence’ of the Munich and Göttingen account of essences in phenomenology.

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