The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics

Judgment, Inference, and Truth

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by James W. Allard

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 2005, 272 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521834058

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.

Contents

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.