This book contains a collection of essays co-authored by Edgar Morscher and Peter Simons. The themes of the essays range from questions of the objectivity of truth-bearers and truth-makers to Meinong's object theory and semantics, from the history and foundations of free logic to situation semantics, and include also an occasional piece on the philosophy of water, an unusual topic assigned to the authors for a conference about the River Danube. The last and previously unpublished essay deals with similarities as well as differences between leading ideas in the philosophies of Bolzano, Quine and Kit Fine; this essay is part of a longer-term book project of the authors.

EDGAR MORSCHER and PETER SIMONS teach philosophy at the University of Salzburg, the former as an emeritus and the latter as an honorary professor; Peter Simons holds, in addition the prestigious Chair of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College of the University of Dublin. Among Peter Simons's numerous publications, his Parts (Oxford University Press 1987) has become a classic. Edgar Morscher is the author of seven and co-author of six books, and to date he has (co-)edited more than 40 books with Academia Verlag.