The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics
Judgment, Inference, and Truth

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley.

James Allard (Author)

9780521174213, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

262 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.39 kg

Review of the hardback: 'There is no book which confronts comprehensively - as Allard's does - the way in which Bradley arrives at his complexly interrelated theories of judgment, inference and truth by negative evaluation of alternative accounts … Allard succeeds in combining at each stage, lucid exegesis with critical discussion that gives Bradley's theories a contemporary relevance and raises them far above objects of merely historical interest.' Guy Stock, University of Dundee

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the problem of how it is possible for inferences to be both valid and yet have conclusions that contain new information. The author then describes how this solution provides a basis for Bradley's metaphysical view that reality is one interconnected experience and how this gives rise to a new problem of truth.

1. Faith, idealism, and logic
2. Bradley's project
3. Judgment
4. Conditional judgments
5. A system of judgments
6. The problem of inference
7. The validity of inference
8. Truth.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5]