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The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. : A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry; Considers the meaning of a high, the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness; Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers, psyc.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Meinong in His and Our Times -- 2 Alexius Meinong's Life and Work -- PART II: MATES AND PUPILS -- 3 Rudolf Ameseder (1877-1937) -- 4 Vittorio Benussi (1878-1927) -- 5 Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932) -- 6 Wilhelm Frankl (1878-1933) -- 7 Fritz Heider (1896-1988) -- 8 Alois Hofler (1853-1922) -- 9 Ernst Mally (1879-1944) -- 10 Ernst Schwarz (1878-1938) -- 11 France Veber (1890-1975) -- 12 Stephan Witasek (1870-1915) -- PART III: TOPICS IN MEINONGIAN PHILOSOPHY -- A. Psychology -- 13 Presentation and Production -- 14 Meinong on Psychological Content -- 15 Assumptions -- 16 Meinong on the Objects of Sensation -- 17 The Legacy of the Graz Psychologists -- B. Logic, Ontology and Metaphysics -- 18 General Theses of the Theory of Objects -- 19 Aufiersein of the Pure Object -- 20 Nuclear and Extranuclear Properties -- 21 Meinong's Theory of Meaning -- 22 The Meinongian Logic of Fiction -- 23 Meinong's Main Mistake -- 24 What is Alive and What is Dead in Russell's Critique of Meinong -- C. Value Theory -- 25 Meinongian Aesthetics -- 26 Value Theory in Ehrenfels and Meinong -- Index of Names

The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply