E-Book Overview
Wayne Martin traces attempts to develop theories of judgment in British Empiricism, the logical tradition stemming from Kant, nineteenth-century psychologism, recent experimental neuropsychology, and the phenomenological tradition associated with Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger. His reconstruction of vibrant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century debates links Kantian approaches to judgment with twentieth-century phenomenological accounts. He also shows that the psychological, logical and phenomenological dimensions of judgment are not only equally important, but fundamentally interlinked.
E-Book Content
This page intentionally left blank
THEORIES OF JUDGMENT The exercise of judgment is an aspect of human endeavor from our most mundane acts to our most momentous decisions. In this book Wayne Martin develops a historical survey of theoretical approaches to judgment, focusing on treatments of judgment in psychology, logic, phenomenology, and painting. He traces attempts to develop theories of judgment in British Empiricism, the logical tradition stemming from Kant, nineteenth-century psychologism, recent experimental neuropsychology, and the phenomenological tradition associated with Brentano, Husserl, and Heidegger. His reconstruction of vibrant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century debates links Kantian approaches to judgment with twentieth-century phenomenological accounts. He also shows that the psychological, logical, and phenomenological dimensions of judgment are not only equally important, but fundamentally interlinked, in any complete understanding of judgment. His book will interest a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, and psychology. wayn e martin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. Since 2002 he has served as the General Editor of Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy and he is author of Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte’s Jena Project (1997).
MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY General Editor R O B E R T B . P I P P I N , University of Chicago Advisory Board G A R Y G U T T I N G , University of Notre Dame R O L F - P E T E R H O R S T M A N N , Humboldt University, Berlin M A R K S A C K S , University of Essex
Some recent titles Daniel W. Conway: Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game John P. McCormick: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism Frederick A. Olafson: Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics Gu ¨ller: Fichte’s Transcendental Philosophy ¨ nter Zo Warren Breckman: Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory William Blattner: Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism Charles Griswold: Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment Gary Gutting: Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity Allen Wood: Kant’s Ethical Thought Karl Ameriks: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Alfredo Ferrarin: Hegel and Aristotle Cristina Lafont: Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure Nicholas Wolsterstorff: Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology Daniel Dahlstrom: Heidegger’s Concept of Truth Michelle Grier: Kant’s Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion Henry Allison: Kant’s Theory of Taste Allen Speight: Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency J. M. Bernstein: Adorno Will Dudley: Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy Taylor Carman: Heidegger’s Analytic Douglas Moggach: The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer Ru ¨ diger Bubner: The Innovations of Idealism Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered
Michael Quante: Hegel’s Concept of Action Wolfgang Detel: Foucault and Classical Antiquity Robert M. Wallace: Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God Johanna Oksala: Foucault on Freedom Be´atrice Longuenesse: Kant on the Human Standpoint
THEORIES OF JUDGMENT Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology
WAYNE M. MARTIN University of Essex
Cambridge, New York, Melbour