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In this first volume of The Sylvan Jungle, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, "Exploring Meinong's Jungle," of Richard Routley's 1000-plus page book, Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond. Going against the Quinean orthodoxy, Routley s aim was to support Meinong s idea that we can truthfully refer to non-existent and even impossible objects, like Superman, unicorns and the (infamous) round-square cupola on Berkeley College. The tools of non-classical logic at Routley s disposal enabled him to update Meinong s project for a new generation.
This volume begins with an Introduction from Dominic Hyde, The Jungle Book in Context, an essay that situates Exploring Meinong s Jungle and Beyond historically. We provide the original Preface by Routley, followed by Chapter 1: Exploring Meinong s Jungle and Beyond. In Chapter 2, Nicholas Griffin argues that Sylvan s project was insufficiently radical with his essay, Why the Original Theory of Items Didn t (Quite) Go Far Enough. Sylvan revisits his position from this time in Chapter 3, with his article, Re-Exploring Item-Theory. Filippo Casati, who has worked in the Routley Archives then takes up the question of the future of Sylvan s research program in his essay, The Future Perfect of Exploring Meinong s Jungle.
Iconic and iconoclastic Australian philosopher Richard Routley (né Sylvan) published Exploring Meinong s Jungle and Beyond in 1980. This work has fallen out of print, yet without great fanfare it has influenced two generations of philosophers and logicians.