Clinton Tolley -- UCSD Philosophy Dept

SoCal HPLM
the Southern California Research Group in the
History of Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (HPLM), headed by Erick Reck (UC Riverside)
with Jeremy Heis (UC Irvine)

Bolzano and German Philosophy
a research project on Bolzano's critical engagement with German Idealism, headed by Sandra Lapointe (Kansas), with Timothy Rosenkoetter (Johns Hopkins) and Nicholas Stang (Miami)

History of Philosophy Roundtable
(HOPR) bi-weekly discussion of work in progress in the history of philosophy, hosted at UCSD

Phenomenology Reading Group
(phe-re-grou) weekly discussion of central texts in modern European philosophy, with a special emphasis on the phenomenological tradition, hosted at UCSD

Kant's conception of logic
an analysis of Kant's views of both formal and transcendental logic; the place of Kant's views about logic within the system of transcendental idealism; the influence of Kant's views on the history of philosophy of logic

Kant and phenomenology
an investigation into the causes of the shift in assessment of Kant's idealism from Brentano, through the early Husserl, into the later Husserl and Heidegger

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 attempt at a 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) a general theory of concepts, judgments, and inferences and (b) 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	[working groups] SoCal HPLM the Southern California Research Group in the History of Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (HPLM), headed by Erick Reck (UC Riverside) with Jeremy Heis (UC Irvine) Bolzano and German Philosophy a research project on Bolzano's critical engagement with German Idealism, headed by Sandra Lapointe (Kansas), with Timothy Rosenkoetter (Johns Hopkins) and Nicholas Stang (Miami) History of Philosophy Roundtable (HOPR) bi-weekly discussion of work in progress in the history of philosophy, hosted at UCSD Phenomenology Reading Group (phe-re-grou) weekly discussion of central texts in modern European philosophy, with a special emphasis on the phenomenological tradition, hosted at UCSD [writing projects] Kant's conception of logic an analysis of Kant's views of both formal and transcendental logic; the place of Kant's views about logic within the system of transcendental idealism; the influence of Kant's views on the history of philosophy of logic Kant and phenomenology an investigation into the causes of the shift in assessment of Kant's idealism from Brentano, through the early Husserl, into the later Husserl and Heidegger 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 attempt at a 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) a general theory of concepts, judgments, and inferences and (b) 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?
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