Concept and Judgment in Brentano's Logic Lectures

Robin D. Rollinger is employed as a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published numerous studies in phenomenology and has edited two volumes of writings by Edmund Husserl.

Preface

Analysis



Introduction



1 The Neo-Scholastic Background

 1 The Tasks of Logic

 2 Concept

 3 Judgment

 4 Syllogism

 5 Concluding Remarks



2 Definition and Value of Logic

 1 The Relevant Manuscripts

 2 Logic as the Art of Judging

 3 Logic, Psychology, and Philosophy

 4 The Value of Logic

 5 Psychologism

 6 Language

 7 Dialectic

 8 Concluding Remarks



3 Concept

 1 Presentations and Names

 2 Distinctions among Concepts

 3 Distinctions among Modes of Presentation

 4 Distinctions among Names

 5 Relations among Presentations

 6 Definitions

 7 Concluding Remarks



4 Judgment

 1 Critique of Kant’s Table

 2 Complexity and Simplicity

 3 Form

 4 Form and Matter

 5 Intensity

 6 Motive

 7 Modality

 8 Statements

 9 Relations between Judgments

 10 Evidence

 11 Syllogism

 12 Concluding Remarks



Materials



Preparatory Note to Materials



5 Franz Hillebrand, Die elementare Logik und die in ihr nötigen Reformen nach den Vorlesungen des Dr. Franz Brentanos (Wintersemester 1884/85, Wien)



6 Franz Hillebrand, Elementary Logic and the Reforms Necessary in It according to the Lectures of Dr. Franz Brentano (Winter Semester 1884/85, Vienna)



7 Franz Hillebrand, The New Theories of Categorical Inferences (1891)



Bibliography

Index