Act and Object of Judgment

Brian Ball is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, London, and Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford; he was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford (2014–2016), and at St Anne’s College, Oxford (2008–2014). He works in the philosophies of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics, and has published papers in these areas in journals including Analysis, Erkenntnis, Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology, and Philosophical Quarterly.Christoph Schuringa is Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, and has recently been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Leipzig and Pittsburgh. He works in the history of German philosophy and in practical philosophy, and has published in journals including History of Philosophy Quarterly and International Yearbook of Hermeneutics.

• Introduction Brian Ball1. Affirmation, Judgment, and Epistemic Theodicy in Descartes and SpinozaMartin Lin 2. Locke and Leibniz on Judgment: the First-Person Perspective and the Danger of Psychologism Maria van der Schaar3. Kant’s Logic of Judgment: Against the Relational Approach Alexandra Newton4. Time and Modality in Hegel’s Account of JudgmentPaul Redding5. Bolzano’s Theory of Judgment Mark Siebel6. Correctness First: Brentano on Judgment and Truth Mark Textor7. Judgment, Reasons and Feelings Simon Blackburn8. Twardowski on Judgment Peter Simons9. Attitudinal Objects: their Ontology and Importance for Philosophy and Natural Language Semantics Friederike Moltmann10. About vs Concerns Daniel Morgan11. Predication and Two Concepts of Judgment Indrek Reiland12. How is Logical Inference Possible? Christopher Peacocke