Meinong's Theory of Objects
London : Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press 1933. First Edition. xii, 268 pages. 8vo. Light blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. SIGNED by author John Findlay March 1933 on front flyleaf, and in another color ink is added "Herrn Professor Bendorf uberreicht von" above. Spine lightly sunned, minor wear to the extremities. Very Good. Cloth. [23286]
"Dunlop was succeeded as Professor of Philosophy and Psychology by the 29-year-old J.N. Findlay, the first professor of philosophy at Otago to win international renown. Findlay was a South African who had studied at Graz and Oxford. A once and future Hegelian, he had been 'de-idealised' at Oxford, under the influence of Russell’s Our Knowledge of the External World. Whilst at Otago, he published one book (Meinong's Theory of Objects), worked on another (eventually published as Values and Intentions) and devoted himself, as a teacher, to ‘introducing mathematical logic to the Antipodes’. In this endeavor he was remarkably successful, since his most brilliant pupil was the great logician A.N. Prior (1914-1969), the founder of tense logic. In his little book Logic and the Basis of Ethics (1949), which is largely devoted to the 18th century British Moralists, Prior is profuse in his acknowledgements: 'I owe to [Findlay’s] teaching, directly or indirectly, all that I know of either Logic or Ethics'. Prior’s debt to Findlay did not end there. It was Findlay who got him his first job as a philosopher, as an Assistant Lecturer at Otago, and it was Findlay’s recommendation that got him his second job at Canterbury in 1946." (University of Otago website) "Alexius Meinong (17 July 1853 – 27 November 1920) was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology. He also made contributions to philosophy of mind and theory of value." "John Niemeyer Findlay, known as J. N. Findlay (25 November 1903 – 27 September 1987), was a South African philosopher." (Wikipedia)
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