Ernst Mally

Not to be confused with Ern Malley.

Ernst Mally
Born11 October 1879
Kranj, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary
Died8 March 1944 (1944-03-09) (aged 64)
Schwanberg, Austria
EducationUniversity of Graz
(PhD, 1903; Dr. phil. hab., 1912)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGraz School of object theory (part of the Austrian realist Meinong's School) (early)[1]
Analytic philosophy (late)[2][3]
InstitutionsUniversity of Graz
(1925–1942)
Theses
Doctoral advisorAlexius Meinong
Doctoral studentsJ. N. Findlay
Main interests
Metaphysics, theory of objects
Notable ideas
"Instantiating" vs. "being determined by" (erfüllen vs. determiniert sein) a property as two modes of predication[4][2]
Nuclear vs. extranuclear (formal vs. extra-formal) properties (formale vs. außerformale Bestimmungen) of objects[5][6][7]
Abstract determinates (Determinaten) as the content of mental states[4][3]
Axiomatization of ethics (deontic logic)
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Ernst Mally (/ˈmɑːli/; German: [ˈmali]; 11 October 1879 – 8 March 1944) was an Austrian analytic philosopher,[2][3] initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Mally was one of the founders of deontic logic and is mainly known for his contributions in that field of research. In metaphysics, he is known for introducing a distinction between two kinds of predication, better known as the dual predication approach.[7]

  1. ^ Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, The School of Alexius Meinong, Routledge, 2017, p. 191.
  2. ^ a b c Hieke & Zecha
  3. ^ a b c Edward N. Zalta, "Mally's Determinates and Husserl's Noemata", in Ernst Mally – Versuch einer Neubewertung, A. Hieke (ed.), St. Augustin: Academia-Verlag, 1998, pp. 9–28.
  4. ^ a b Mally 1912, §§33 and 39.
  5. ^ Mally, Ernst. 1909. "Gegenstandstheorie und Mathematik", Bericht Über den III. Internationalen Kongress für Philosophie zu Heidelberg (Report of the Third International Congress of Philosophy, Heidelberg), 1–5 September 1908; ed. Professor Dr. Theodor Elsenhans, 881–886. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung. Verlag-Nummer 850. Translation: Ernst Mally, "Object Theory and Mathematics", in: Jacquette, D., Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2015), pp. 396–404, esp. 397.
  6. ^ Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, 1996, p. 16.
  7. ^ a b Ernst Mally – The Metaphysics Research Lab
  8. ^ a b Mally 1912, ch. I. "Allgemeines".