The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives - Paperback

by Brian Ball (Editor), Christoph Schuringa (Editor)

The issues explored in this book concern the act and object of judgment. What kind of act is judgment? How is it related to a range of other mental acts, states, and dispositions? How many objects are there of a given judgment? These and related questions are approached from a variety of historical and contemporary perspectives.

Author Biography

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.