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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

COGNITIVE SCIENCE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW THAT CRITICIZES PSYCHOLOGISM

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610012
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Philosophy
Research InstitutionCHUOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SATO Hideaki  CHUOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF COMMERCE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 商学部, 助教授 (70192599)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2002
KeywordsCriticism of Psyhologism / Phenomenology / Cognitive Science
Research Abstract

The term 'Psychologism' was first used in 1866. In Gurndris der Geschichte der Philosophie, Johan Eduard Erdmann used this term for the philosophy of Friedrich Eduard Beneke. From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century 'logical psychologism' was a matter of controversy. Gottlob Frege remained resolutely antipsychological throughout his career. The psychological logicians assumed that what is not real must be subjective. But Frege denies this. He started from the assumption that 'a third realm of objective entities' exists. Numbers and concepts are members of the third realm. This nonphysical objectivity is the same for all rational being, for all who are capable of grasping it. In mathematics and logic, we can find the intersubjective agreements. The objective realm depends on this possibility of agreements. In other words, it depends on 'reason'. But Frege never spoke of 'philosophy of reason'.
On the other hand, it is the general view that Edmund Husserl took a psychological position in his Philosophie der Arithmetik and changes the standpoint in Logische Untersuchungen in response to Frege's criticism. After that he developed his phenomenology. But from a different viewpoint Husserl's investigation had to change corresponding his philosophical position to psychology and logic. His philosophical theory steadily developed the theory presented before Logische Untersuchungen. Whereas the former view is oriented to the content of philosophical theory, the later one is oriented the relation between philosophy and psychology. So on the surface both seem to be contradictory. Husserl developed his theory through changing the position to psychology.

Research Products

(6 results)

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 佐藤英明: "言語と進化"現象学年報. 第15号. 63-78 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 佐藤英明: "フッサールの心理主義批判"中央学院大学 人間・自然論叢. 第17号. 3-32 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 佐藤英明: "フレーゲの心理主義批判"中央学院大学 社会システム研究所 紀要. 第3巻. 37-51 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hideaki SATO: "Language and Evolution"Annual Review of the Phenomenological Association of Japan. No. 15. 63-78 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideaki SATO: "Husserl's Criticism of Psychologism"The Bulletin of Chuo-Gakuin University- Man and Nature. No. 17. 3-32 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hideaki SATO: "Frege's Criticism of Psychologism"Proceedings of the Research Institute of Social Systems Chuo Gakuin University. Vol. 3. 37-51 (2003)

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Published: 2004-04-13  

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