Concept and Judgment in Brentano’s Logic Lectures: Analysis and Materials

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Rollinger, Robin
Concept and Judgment in Brentano’s Logic Lectures: Analysis and Materials.
Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2020. 388 s. Studien zur Österreichischen Philosophie, 48. ISBN 978-90-04-44302-0. ISSN 0167-4102
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Keywords : Descriptive psychology * Logic * History of Logic * Franz Brentano * Franz Hillebrand * Concept * Judgment * Syllogism
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The first part of the book is an analysis of Franz Brentano’s lectures on logic, primarily on the basis of the notes contained under the signature EL 80 (among his manuscripts as these are preserved in the Houghton Library at Harvard University). Brentano repeatedly used and revised these notes, at first in Würzburg (as early as 1870) and then in Vienna (probably as late as 1877 or later), though they were superceded by another, very different set of notes on logic (EL 72), some of which he used for the winter semester 1878/79, but with considerable revisions and additions for 1884/85 and for an (unannounced) continuation into the summer semester 1885. While EL 80 provides us with an alternative term-logic of his own making, the latter notes are much more remote from what we ordinarily call “logic” in either traditional or contemporary terminology. The former include such staples of logic as a treatment of both deductive and inductive inference. The second part of the present volume includes a German edition and English translation of notes that Franz Hillebrand took from Brentano’s lectures on logic in 1884/85, in which he elaborates on Brentano’s syllogistic logic in connection with the theory of judgment, as he also defends this logic against contemporaneous rivals regarding the same issues.
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