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Husserl's critique of double judgments

Carlo Ierna(University of Groningen)

pp. 49-73

Abstract

In this paper I will discuss Edmund Husserl's critique of Franz Brentano's interpretation of categorical judgments as Double Judgments (Doppelurteile). This will be developed mostly as an internal critique, within the framework of the school of Brentano, and not through a direct contrast with Husserl's own theory of judgment, as presented e.g. in the Fifth Investigation. Already during the 1890s Husserl overcame the psychologistic aspects of Brentano's approach, advocating the importance of analysing the logical structure underlying language independently from psychology. Moreover, Husserl's critique seems to be also applicable to Bertrand Russell's analysis, which shares an important aspect of Brentano's theory. I will try to avoid going too deep into the various theories of judgment and keep mostly to the issue of double judgments.

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Published in:

Mattens Filip (2008) Meaning and language: phenomenological perspectives. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 49-73

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8331-0_3

Full citation:

Ierna Carlo (2008) „Husserl's critique of double judgments“, In: F. Mattens (ed.), Meaning and language, Dordrecht, Springer, 49–73.