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27Judgement and Intentionality in Early BrentanoGrazer Philosophische Studien 100 (1-2): 151-172. 2023.There are two notions of intentionality: the first contains the thesis that our acts of thinking, judging and loving have a content; the second that our mental acts are about something external to the act. Brentano uses the term ‘intentionality’ only in relation to the first notion; for him, intentionality does not function as a bridge between the mind and the external world. Is it possible for a phenomenologist like Brentano to give an account of the second notion of intentionality? It is argue…Read more
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130The road from vienna to lvov twardowski’s theory of judgement between 1894 and 1897Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 (1): 1-20. 2004.In several manuscripts, written between 1894 and 1897, Twardowski developed a new theory of judgement with two types of judgement: existential and relational judgements. In Zur Lehre he tried to stay within a Brentanian framework, although he introduced the distinction between content and object in the theory of judgement. The introduction of this distinction forced Twardowski to revise further Brentano'stheory.His changes concerned judgements about relations and about non-present objects. The l…Read more
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Locke and Leibniz on judgment: the first-person perspective and the danger of psychologismIn Brian Andrew Ball & Christoph Schuringa (eds.), The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2019.
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18Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic (edited book)Springer. 2012.This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review. The commentary repatriates the concept of judgement in the discussion, banished in recent times by the logical positivism of Wittgenstein, Hilbert and Schlick, and the Platonism of Bolzano. The volume commences with the insights of Swedish philosopher Per Martin-Löf, the father of constructive type theory, for whom logic is a demonstrative sci…Read more
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145The cognitive act and the first-person perspective: an epistemology for constructive type theorySynthese 180 (3). 2011.The notion of cognitive act is of importance for an epistemology that is apt for constructive type theory, and for epistemology in general. Instead of taking knowledge attributions as the primary use of the verb 'to know' that needs to be given an account of, and understanding a first-person knowledge claim as a special case of knowledge attribution, the account of knowledge that is given here understands first-person knowledge claims as the primary use of the verb 'to know'. This means that a c…Read more
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175Frege on Judgement and the Judging AgentMind 127 (505): 225-250. 2018.How is Frege able to claim that the notion of judgement is essential to his logic without introducing a form of psychologism? I argue first that Frege’s logical notion of judgement is to be distinguished from an empirical notion of judgement, that it cannot be understood as an abstract, idealized notion, and that there are doubts concerning a transcendental reading of Frege’s writings. Then, I explain that the logical notion of judgement has to be understood from a first-person perspective, to b…Read more
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181Women in Early Analytic Philosophy: Volume IntroductionJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 5 (2). 2017.Introduction to the special issue including papers about Susan Stebbing, Susanne Langer and Maria Kokoszyńska.
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28The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic PhilosophyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28 (4): 437-439. 2014.
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35The road from vienna to lvov twardowski’s theory of judgement between 1894 and 1897 (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 (1): 1-20. 2004.
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19GF Stout and Russell's Earliest Account of JudgementIn Mark Textor (ed.), Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, Palgrave. 2013.
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1Judgement, belief and acceptanceIn Giuseppe Primiero (ed.), Acts of Knowledge: History, Philosophy and Logic, College Publications. 2009.
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34Locke on knowledge and the cognitive actGrazer Philosophische Studien 78 (1): 1-15. 2009.The first half of the paper gives an interpretation of Locke's concept of knowledge, which shows that Aristotelian ideas and later scholasticism has had some influence on Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The second half of the paper shows the uniqueness of Locke's account of knowledge by contrasting it with the standard account of knowledge as justified true belief. The most important point is that knowledge, for Locke, is primarily an act, not a state
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82Assertion and grounding: a theory of assertion for constructive type theorySynthese 183 (2): 187-210. 2011.Taking Per Martin-Löf’s constructive type theory as a starting-point a theory of assertion is developed, which is able to account for the epistemic aspects of the speech act of assertion, and in which it is shown that assertion is not a wide genus. From a constructivist point of view, one is entitled to assert, for example, that a proposition A is true, only if one has constructed a proof object a for A in an act of demonstration. One thereby has grounded the assertion by an act of demonstration…Read more
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2Brentano on Logic, Truth and EvidenceBrentano Studien 10 119-150. 2002.In this paper it will be argued that Brentano's later writings about this topic can be understood better if one describes it as a result partly of his immanent development and partly of Brentano's reactions to his contemporaries.
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59Evidence and the Law of Excluded Middle: Brentano on TruthIn Timothy Childers (ed.), The Logica Yearbook 1998, Filosofia. 1999.The central question of my paper is whether there is a coherent logical theory in which truth is construed in epistemic terms and in which also some version of the law of excluded middle is defended. Brentano in his later writings has such a theory.2 My first question is whether his theory is consistent. I also make a comparison between Brentano’s view and that of an intuitionist at the present day, namely Per Martin-Löf. Such a comparison might provide some insight into what is essential to a t…Read more
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55G. E. Moore. Early Philosophical Writings: Edited by Thomas Baldwin and Consuelo Preti, Cambridge University Press, 2011Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (4): 511-514. 2012.
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99Locke on Judgement and Religious TolerationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 41-68. 2012.With the publication of Locke’s early manuscripts on toleration and the drafts for the Essay, it is possible to understand to what extent Locke’s ideas on religious toleration have developed. Although the important arguments for toleration can already be found in these early texts, Locke was confronted with a problem in his defence of toleration that he needed to solve. If faith, as a form of judgement, is involuntary, as Locke claims, how can one be held accountable for the faith one has? In an…Read more
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121Locke and Arnauld on Judgment and PropositionHistory and Philosophy of Logic 29 (4): 327-341. 2008.To understand pre-Fregean theories of judgment and proposition, such as those found in Locke and the Port-Royal logic, it is important to distinguish between propositions in the modern sense and propositions in the pre-Fregean sense. By making this distinction it becomes clear that these pre-Fregean theories cannot be meant to solve the propositional attitude problem. Notwithstanding this fact, Locke and Arnauld are able to make a distinction between asserted and unasserted propositions (in thei…Read more
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48Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the WorldBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (3): 534-536. 2010.No abstract
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36Review of Rosalind Carey, Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (1). 2008.
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31The red of a rose. On the significance of Stout's category of abstract particularsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 82 (1): 197-216. 2004.In this paper I argue for the thesis that Stout's category of abstract particulars (what Husserl calls "moments') has played a role in the transition from Bradleian idealism to British analytic philosophy. That category plays this role as part of a new theory of wholes, parts and relations that Stout develops in opposition to Bradley. In Stout's theory abstract particulars are dependent parts of wholes. The critical remarks that G. E. Moore and Kevin Mulligan have made concerning Stout's identif…Read more
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82From analytic psychology to analytic philosophy: The reception of Twardowski's ideas in cambridge (review)Axiomathes 7 (3): 295-324. 1996.
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165The assertion-candidate and the meaning of moodSynthese 159 (1): 61-82. 2007.The meaning of a declarative sentence and that of an interrogative sentence differ in their aspect of mood. A semantics of mood has to account for the differences in meaning between these sentences, and it also has to explain that sentences in different moods may have a common core. The meaning of the declarative mood is to be explained not in terms of actual force (contra Dummett), but in terms of potential force. The meaning of the declarative sentence (including its mood) is called the assert…Read more