The Role of Wolff’s Analysis of Judgements in Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation

Johan Blok

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The Role of Wolff’s Analysis of Judgements in Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation

Johan Blok

University of Groningen

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The subject and its cognitive faculties play a prominent role in the German philosophy and logic of the eighteenth century, including Wolff and Kant. This is due to the central place they granted to the notion of judgement. Ignoring the details, they considered a judgement to be made when two concepts or representations are united in thought. This aspect, already present in Wolff, comes more to the fore in the philosophy of Kant. Nevertheless, both also adopted a more formal approach to judgements. This chapter shows how both Wolff and Kant seek to combine the epistemological role of the subject with a formal analysis of the notion of judgement. As a result, I defend the claim that the criticism of metaphysics Kant elaborates in his dissertation De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis of 1770 relies on a transformation of this formal analysis to the meta-level of the human faculties.

Originele taal-2	English
Titel	Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic
Plaats van productie	Dordrecht
Uitgeverij	Springer
Pagina's	69-83
Aantal pagina's	15
Volume	31
ISBN van elektronische versie	978-94-007-5137-8
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-94-007-5136-1
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5137-8_6
Status	Published - 27 okt. 2012
Extern gepubliceerd	Ja

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menselijke vermogens
voldoende reden
epistemologische aard
ontologisch verschil
metafysische bewering

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