Synopses & Reviews
What is judgement?
This question has exercised generations of philosophers. Early analytic philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein as well as phenomenologists such as Brentano, Husserl and Reinach changed how philosophers think about this question. The papers in this book explore and assess their contributions and help us to retrace their steps. In doing so we will get a clearer picture of judgement and the related notion of truth.
Synopsis
The prevalent view of judgement in late Modern philosophy was the idea that judgement is the synthesis of representations into a unity. The synthesis model of judgement proved to be highly influential. Idealists on the Continent and in Britain conceived of judgement as a unifying act. However, the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century saw a major change in the theory of judgement. Early analytic philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein as well as phenomenologists such as Brentano, Husserl and Reinach changed how philosophers think about judgement. This collection explores and assesses the contributions of these philosophers to the theory of judgement. Its historical approach allows us to get a clearer picture of judgement and the related notion of truth. The book will be of interest for anyone working on the history of analytic philosophy, phenomenology and philosophy of mind.
Synopsis
What is judgement? is a question that has exercised generations of philosophers. Early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein) and phenomenologists (Brentano, Husserl and Reinach) changed how philosophers think about this question. This book explores and assesses their contributions and help us to retrace their steps.
About the Author
Mark Textor is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, UK.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; M.Textor
Theodor Lipps and the Psycho-Logic Theory of Judgement; W.Martin
Truth, Value, and Truth Value. Frege's Theory of Judgement and its Historical Background; G.Gabriel
Merely Entertaining a Thought, Judging and Asserting. Notes on a Passage in Frege's 'The Thought'; W.Künne
We owe it to Sigwart! A New Look at the Content/Object Distinction in Early Phenomenological Theories of Judgment from Brentano to Twardowski; A.Betti
Acceptance, Acknowledgment, Affirmation, Agreement, Assertion, Belief, Certainty, Conviction, Denial, Judgment, Refusal and Rejection; K.Mulligan
G.F. Stout and Russell's Earliest Account of Judgement; M.van der Schaar
The Myth of the Coherence Theory of Truth; N.Damnjanovic and S.Candlish
The Origin and Influence of G. E. Moore's 'The Nature of Judgment'; C.Preti
The Russell-Wittgenstein Dispute: A new Perspective; F.McBride
Judgement and Truth in the Early Wittgenstein; H.Glock
Index