Categories of the Temporal by Rdl
Roedl traces how the Fregean influence on analytic philosophy led to an unholy alliance of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist conception of thought. He turns to Kant and Aristotle to untangle the relation of judgment and truth to time, and shows that investigating categories of the temporal can contribute to logic.
Isaiah Berlin once responded to a question about what he thought of a certain philosophical work by saying "it is both good and originalBut where it is good it is not original and where it is original it is not good." Categories of the Temporal is that rare work of philosophy which is the one where it is the other. One seldom reads something this substantial by a contemporary philosophical author that manages to be at the same time so remarkably philosophically ambitious and yet so remarkably successful in living up to the very ambitions it sets itself. Success of that form is the mark of a classic. -- James Conant, University of Chicago
Rödl here boldly challenges the most fundamental and simultaneously the most obscure concepts in philosophy. He reexamines in their most abstract form the logical categories deep at the heart of temporal thought, questioning major theses such as Frege's idea that certain deductive calculus is a demonstration of the very form of thought itself. Rödl's major feat is to name directly and thus clear the air of such dangers as the lack of clarity long tolerated in Wittgenstein's substitution of the term 'grammar' for 'logic.' After arduous preparation, Rödl makes his major stand, questioning directly not the 'difference' but the 'connection' between judgment and truth. He then explores the contributions of the categories of temporal thought and logic as they act in league with each other, proposing that philosophy originates along with thought as it comes to recognize its peculiar relation to time. Thought must relate either directly or indirectly to intuition. Philosophical activity thus is prized as a special kind of achievement involving a search for truth endemic to humans as temporal creatures. This volume—a daring undertaking—succeeds through fine-tuned argument, neatly expressed. Kudos to the translator for skillfully maintaining the flow and continuity of such complex argumentation. -- J. M. Boyle * Choice *
Rödl here boldly challenges the most fundamental and simultaneously the most obscure concepts in philosophy. He reexamines in their most abstract form the logical categories deep at the heart of temporal thought, questioning major theses such as Frege's idea that certain deductive calculus is a demonstration of the very form of thought itself. Rödl's major feat is to name directly and thus clear the air of such dangers as the lack of clarity long tolerated in Wittgenstein's substitution of the term 'grammar' for 'logic.' After arduous preparation, Rödl makes his major stand, questioning directly not the 'difference' but the 'connection' between judgment and truth. He then explores the contributions of the categories of temporal thought and logic as they act in league with each other, proposing that philosophy originates along with thought as it comes to recognize its peculiar relation to time. Thought must relate either directly or indirectly to intuition. Philosophical activity thus is prized as a special kind of achievement involving a search for truth endemic to humans as temporal creatures. This volume—a daring undertaking—succeeds through fine-tuned argument, neatly expressed. Kudos to the translator for skillfully maintaining the flow and continuity of such complex argumentation. -- J. M. Boyle * Choice *
Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674047754 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674047753 |
| Title | Categories of the Temporal |
| Author | Sebastian Rödl |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2021-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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