Clinton Tolley -- UCSD Philosophy Dept

Kant's conception of logic

{an analysis of both formal (pure general) and transcendental Kantian logics; the role of Kant's doctrine of logic in Kantian idealism; its influence in the history of philosophy of logic}

logical knowledge as self-knowledge

{an exposition and evaluation of two theses: (i) the thinking subject has the same structure as (or just is) 'the Concept' (and vice versa), and (ii) the thinking subject's relation to logical content has the same form as (or just is) its relation to itself; especially as these theses are put forward in the German idealist tradition}

theories of concepts in the (long) 19th century

{a study in the history of philosophy of logic in the period between Lambert and Tarski, tracing the rise of the set-theoretic analysis of concepts, of what led to the eventual rejection of the priority of intensions and the thorough 'extensionalization' of logic in the mid 20th century; with particular focus on the late 19th century disputes between Inhalts- and Umfangslogiker}

post-Fregean logic as a transcendental logic

{an attempt to elaborate worries (from a broadly Kantian point of view) about how the (implicit and explicit) function of the concept of an individual and of reference within logic after Frege complicates its claim to formality}

the relation between logic to Gegenstandstheorie

{an investigation into the dependence-relations that obtain between a general theory of concepts, judgments, and inferences and a general theory of objects of various orders; both in the early tradition of object-theory (Bolzano, Meinong), but also as this relation is thematized in responses to Fregean (and neo-Fregean) semantics; throughout worrying about questions such as: can we construe concepts as objects of a certain sort? can assertions be nominalized without 'losing the phenomena'? can everything which can be 'used' be 'mentioned' unproblematically?; is there an acceptable form of unrestricted quantification?}



	Clinton Tolley	{ctolley [at] ucsd.edu} office: H&SS 8061 [map] phone: 858-822-2686


courses	Kant's conception of logic {an analysis of both formal (pure general) and transcendental Kantian logics; the role of Kant's doctrine of logic in Kantian idealism; its influence in the history of philosophy of logic} logical knowledge as self-knowledge {an exposition and evaluation of two theses: (i) the thinking subject has the same structure as (or just is) 'the Concept' (and vice versa), and (ii) the thinking subject's relation to logical content has the same form as (or just is) its relation to itself; especially as these theses are put forward in the German idealist tradition} theories of concepts in the (long) 19th century {a study in the history of philosophy of logic in the period between Lambert and Tarski, tracing the rise of the set-theoretic analysis of concepts, of what led to the eventual rejection of the priority of intensions and the thorough 'extensionalization' of logic in the mid 20th century; with particular focus on the late 19th century disputes between Inhalts- and Umfangslogiker} post-Fregean logic as a transcendental logic {an attempt to elaborate worries (from a broadly Kantian point of view) about how the (implicit and explicit) function of the concept of an individual and of reference within logic after Frege complicates its claim to formality} the relation between logic to Gegenstandstheorie {an investigation into the dependence-relations that obtain between a general theory of concepts, judgments, and inferences and a general theory of objects of various orders; both in the early tradition of object-theory (Bolzano, Meinong), but also as this relation is thematized in responses to Fregean (and neo-Fregean) semantics; throughout worrying about questions such as: can we construe concepts as objects of a certain sort? can assertions be nominalized without 'losing the phenomena'? can everything which can be 'used' be 'mentioned' unproblematically?; is there an acceptable form of unrestricted quantification?} {more soon}
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