The Act and Object of Judgment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Act and Object of Judgment write by Brian Ball. This book was released on 2019-03-14. The Act and Object of Judgment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 there a distinct category of negative judgments, or are these simply judgments whose objects are negative? Concerning the object of judgment: How many objects are there of a given judgment? One, as on the dual relation theory of Frege and Moore? Or many as in Russell’s later multiple relation theory? If there is a single object, is it a proposition? And if so, is it a force-neutral, abstract entity that might equally figure as the object of a range of intentional attitudes? Or is it somehow constitutively tied to the act itself? These and related questions are approached from a variety of historical and contemporary perspectives. This book sheds new light on current controversies by drawing on the details of the distinct intellectual contexts in which previous philosophers’ positions about the nature of judgment were formulated. In turn, new directions in present-day research promise to raise novel interpretive prospects and challenges in the history of philosophy.
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics write by James Allard. This book was released on 2004-11-22. The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the problem of how it is possible for inferences to be both valid and yet have conclusions that contain new information. The author then describes how this solution provides a basis for Bradley's metaphysical view that reality is one interconnected experience and how this gives rise to a new problem of truth.
Self-Consciousness and Objectivity
Self-Consciousness and Objectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Consciousness and Objectivity write by Sebastian Rdl. This book was released on 2018-01-08. Self-Consciousness and Objectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sebastian Rödl undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. This profound work revives the thought that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-knowledge: knowledge knowing itself.
Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham write by Thomas Michael Osborne. This book was released on 2014. Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions
Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions write by Samuel Lebens. This book was released on 2017-05-25. Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ). Although the theory was much maligned by Wittgenstein and ultimately rejected by Russell himself, Lebens shows that it provides a rich and insightful way to understand the nature of propositional content. In Part I, Lebens charts the trajectory of Russell’s thought before he adopted the MRTJ. Part II reviews the historical story of the theory: What led Russell to deny the existence of propositions altogether? Why did the theory keep evolving throughout its short life? What role did G. F. Stout play in the evolution of the theory? What was Wittgenstein’s concern with the theory, and, if we can’t know what his concern was exactly, then what are the best contending hypotheses? And why did Russell give the theory up? In Part III, Lebens makes the case that Russell’s concerns with the theory weren’t worth its rejection. Moreover, he argues that the MRTJ does most of what we could want from an account of propositions at little philosophical cost. This book bridges the history of early analytic philosophy with work in contemporary philosophy of language. It advances a bold reading of the theory of descriptions and offers a new understanding of the role of Stout and the representation concern in the evolution of the MRTJ. It also makes a decisive contribution to philosophy of language by demonstrating the viability of a no-proposition theory of propositions.
