By Sophia Gottfried “Behold! A mind!” The reductionist broke down the door to my academy with a bang. He struts in triumphant and throws down a wet, blobfish-like, object onto the floor with a splat sound. However, something smells fishy to me about this mind, as it does not appear … More Behold! A Mind!: A Defense of Emergentism Against Reductionism

by Ethan Kovnat Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong’s view of ontology is rather problematic. This is by no means a unique observation; Meinong’s response to the Riddle of Nonbeing is very effectively refuted by W. V. O. Quine’s Man in the Doorway argument.¹ However, it seems to me that when we … More Plato’s Beard and Bilbo’s Hairy Feet: Defending Meinongian Fictional Discourse