Logical Investigations Volume 1

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ISBN: 9780415241892 | 0415241898
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Copyright: 8/24/2001

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Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology. TheLogical Investigationsis his most famous work and has had a decisive impact n the direction of twentieth century philosophy. This is the first time both volumes of this classic work, translated by J.N. Findlay, have been available in paperback. They include a new introduction by Dermot Moran, placing theLogical Investigationsin historical context and bringing out its importance for contemporary philosophy.

Preface

xvii

Michael Dummett

Introduction

xxi

Dermot Moran

Select bibliography

lxxiii

Translator's Introduction (Abridged)

lxxvii

Foreword to First German Edition, Volume I (1900)

(2)

Foreword to Second German Edition, Volume I (1913)

(6)

PROLEGOMENA TO PURE LOGIC Volume I of the German Editions

Volume I of the German Editions

(2)

Introduction

(1)

The controversy regarding the definition of logic and the essential content of its doctrines

(1)

Necessity of a renewed discussion of questions of principle

(1)

Disputed questions. The path to be entered

(2)

Logic as a normative and, in particular, as a practical discipline

(13)

The theoretical incompleteness of the separate sciences

(1)

The theoretical completion of the separate sciences by metaphysics and theory of science

(1)

The possibility and justification of logic as theory of science

(3)

Continuation. The three most noteworthy peculiarities of grounded validations

(2)

The relation of these peculiarities to the possibility of science and the theory of science

(2)

Methodical modes of procedure in the sciences are in part validatory, in part auxiliary devices towards validations

(1)

The ideas of theory and science as problems of the theory of science

(1)

Logic or theory of science as normative discipline and as technology

(1)

Relevant definitions of logic

(2)

Theoretical disciplines as the foundation of normative disciplines

(12)

The controversy regarding the practical character of logic

(5)

The concept of a normative science. The basic standard or principle that gives it unity

(4)

Normative disciplines and technologies

(1)

Theoretical disciplines as the foundation of normative disciplines

(2)

Psychologism, its arguments and its attitude to the usual counter-arguments

(6)

The disputed question as to whether the essential theoretical foundations of normative logic lie in psychology

(1)

The line of proof of the psychologistic thinkers

(1)

The usual arguments of the opposition and the psychologistic rejoinder

(3)

A gap in the psychologistic line of proof

(2)

Empiricistic consequences of psychologism

(10)

Characterizing two empiricistic consequences of the psychologistic standpoint, and their refutation

(2)

The laws of thought as supposed laws of nature which operate in isolation as causes of rational thought

(3)

A third consequence of psychologism, and its refutation

(3)

Continuation

(2)

Psychological interpretations of basic logical principles

(14)

The law of contradiction in the psychologistic interpretation of Mill and Spencer

(2)

Mill's psychological interpretation of the principle yields no law, but a wholly vague, and scientifically unproven, empirical proposition

(3)

Appendix to the last two sections: On certain basic defects of empiricism

(2)

Analogous objections against remaining psychological interpretations of our logical principle. Ambiguities as sources of delusion

(3)

The supposed two-sidedness of the principle of contradiction, in virtue of which it should be taken both as a natural law of thinking, and as a normal law for its logical regulation

(3)

Continuation. Sigwart's doctrine

(3)

Syllogistic inferences psychologistically considered. Syllogistic and chemical formulae

(5)

Attempts at interpreting syllogistic principles psychologically

(2)

Syllogistic and chemical formulae

(3)

Psychologism as a sceptical relativism

(26)

The ideal conditions for the possibility of a theory as such. The strict concept of scepticism

(1)

Scepticism in the metaphysical sense

(1)

The concept of relativism and its specific forms

(1)

Critique of individual relativism

(1)

Critique of specific relativism and, in particular, of anthropologism

(4)

General observation. The concept of relativism in an extended sense

(1)

Psychologism in all its forms is a relativism

(1)

Anthropologism in Sigwart's Logic

(7)

Anthropologism in the Logic of B. Erdmann

(11)

The psychologistic prejudices

101

(22)

First prejudice

101

(2)

Elucidations

103

(3)

A look back at the opposed arguments of idealism. Their defects and their justified sense

106

(2)

Second prejudice

108

(1)

Refutation. Pure mathematics would likewise be made a branch of psychology

108

(1)

The research domain of pure logic is, like that of mathematics, an ideal domain

109

(2)

Confirmatory indications given by the basic notions of logic and the sense of logical laws

111

(2)

The decisive differences

113

(2)

Third prejudice. Logic as the theory of evidence

115

(1)

Transformation of logical propositions into equivalent propositions about the ideal conditions for the evidence of judgement. The resultant propositions are not psychological

116

(3)

The decisive points in this dispute

119

(4)

Logic and the principle of the economy of thought

123

(11)

Introductory

123

(1)

The teleological character of the principle of Mach and Avenarius and the scientific meaning of an `economy of thought' (Denkokonomik)

123

(3)

Closer treatment of the justified ends of an `economy of thought', in the sphere, mainly, of purely deductive methodology. Its relation to a logical technology

126

(3)

The meaninglessness of an economy of thought for pure logic and epistemology, and its relation to psychology

129

(2)

Continuation. The uστεpoν πpoτεpoν involved in any foundation of pure logic on an economy of thought

131

(3)

End of our critical treatments

134

(10)

Queries regarding readily formed misunderstandings of our logical endeavours

134

(1)

Our links with great thinkers of the past and, in the first place, with Kant

135

(1)

Links with Herbart and Lotze

136

(2)

Links with Leibniz

138

(2)

Need for special investigations to provide an epistemological justification and partial realization of the Idea of pure logic

140

(4)

Appendix: References to F. A. Lange and B. Bolzano

141

(3)

The idea of Pure Logic

144

(16)

The unity of science. The interconnection of things and the interconnection of truths

144

(2)

Continuation. The unity of theory

146

(1)

The essential and extra-essential principles that give science unity. Abstract, concrete and normative sciences

147

(2)

The question as to the ideal conditions of the possibility of science or of theory in general. The question as it relates to actual knowledge

149

(1)

The question as it relates to the content of knowledge

150

(2)

The tasks of pure logic. First: the fixing of the pure categories of meaning, and pure categories of objects and their law-governed combinations

152

(2)

Secondly: the laws and theories which have their grounds in these categories

154

(1)

Thirdly: the theory of the possible forms of theories or the pure theory of manifolds

155

(1)

Elucidation of the Idea of a pure theory of manifolds

156

(2)

Division of labour. The achievement of the mathematicians and that of the philosophers

158

(2)

Broadening of the Idea of pure logic. The pure theory of probability as a pure theory of empirical knowledge

160

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