The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth

ISBN-13: 9780521834056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 262 str.

James W. Allard; James Allard; James Allard

Opis

This major contribution to the study of F.H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth century school of British Idealist philosophers, offers a sustained interpretation of his Principles of Logic. After explaining how it is possible for inferences to be valid and yet have conclusions containing new information, James Allard describes how this solution provides a basis for Bradley's metaphysical view that reality is one interconnected experience. In the process he uncovers a new problem as to the nature of truth.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'There is no book which confronts comprehensively - as Allard's does - the way in which Bradley arrives at his complexly interrelated theories of judgment, inference and truth by negative evaluation of alternative accounts … Allard succeeds in combining at each stage, lucid exegesis with critical discussion that gives Bradley's theories a contemporary relevance and raises them far above objects of merely historical interest.' Guy Stock, University of Dundee

Spis treści

1. Faith, idealism, and logic; 2. Bradley's project; 3. Judgment; 4. Conditional judgments; 5. A system of judgments; 6. The problem of inference; 7. The validity of inference; 8. Truth.