Judgment and Sachverhalt

DuBois shows how Reinach succeeds in developing a realist ontology and epistemology based on rigorous argumentation and phenomenological elucidation. Drawing from texts and the developments of Reinach's students and colleagues - Roman Ingarden, Alexander Pfander and Dietrich von Hildebrand - DuBois presents and defends Reinach's "phenomenological realism". Confrontations of Reinach's theories of states of affairs, concepts and speech acts, with the work of contemporary authors like Chisholm and Searle, allow readers to evaluate Reinach's philosophy.