This book explores Vittorio Benussi's research at Graz and Padua, highlighting its historical significance and contemporary relevance in cognitive psychology and science. It examines his contributions to areas like perception, forensic psychology, and emotions, showcasing his originality and experimental skill, proving he was ahead of his time.
The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong’s Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics. In addition it presents studies on Meinong’s notion of probability and on Auguste Fischer, a student and collaborator of Meinong.