1st Edition

The Act and Object of Judgment Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited By Brian Ball, Christoph Schuringa Copyright 2019
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents 12 original essays on historical and contemporary philosophical discussions of judgment. The central issues explored in this volume can be separated into two groups namely, those concerning the act and object of judgment. What kind of act is judgment? How is it related to a range of other mental acts, states, and dispositions? Where and how does assertive force enter in? Is... Read more

Introduction



Brian Ball



1. Affirmation, Judgment, and Epistemic Theodicy in Descartes and Spinoza



Martin Lin 



2. Locke and Leibniz on Judgment: the First-Person Perspective and the Danger of Psychologism



Maria van der Schaar



3. Kant’s Logic of Judgment: Against the Relational Approach



Alexandra Newton



4. Time and Modality in Hegel’s Account of Judgment



Paul Redding



5. Bolzano’s Theory of Judgment



Mark Siebel



6. Correctness First: Brentano on Judgment and Truth



Mark Textor



7. Judgment, Reasons and Feelings



Simon Blackburn



8. Twardowski on Judgment



Peter Simons



9. Attitudinal Objects: their Ontology and Importance for Philosophy and Natural Language Semantics



Friederike Moltmann



10. About vs Concerns



Daniel Morgan



11. Predication and Two Concepts of Judgment



Indrek Reiland



12. How is Logical Inference Possible?



Christopher Peacocke

Biography

Brian Ball is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, London, and Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford; he was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford (2014–2016), and at St Anne’s College, Oxford (2008–2014). He works in the philosophies of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics, and has published papers in these areas in journals including Analysis, Erkenntnis, Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology, and Philosophical Quarterly.



Christoph Schuringa is Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, and has recently been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Leipzig and Pittsburgh. He works in the history of German philosophy and in practical philosophy, and has published in journals including History of Philosophy Quarterly and International Yearbook of Hermeneutics.