Living logic : A study on Christoph Sigwart's Logik

Francesco Pisano

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-170-3

Living logic : A study on Christoph Sigwart's Logik

Authors

Francesco Pisano

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-1842

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-170-3

Keywords:

Christoph Sigwart, Neokantianism, Transcendental logic, Scientific philosophy, Naturalization

Synopsis

Editore: FedOA Press - Federico II Open Access University Press

Series: Studies in Neo-Kantianism

Pages: 313

Language: Italiano

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29316

Abstract: This study of Christoph Sigwart's (1830-1904) most ambitious philosophical work focuses on a model of transcendental logic. A model that does not conform to the Kantian one because it renounces attributing universality and necessity to the laws that establish a priori the transcendental conditions of knowledge. This model entails a different meaning of "transcendental" and "a priori" free of the need for special epistemic status. Woven into the very contingency that marks the results of empirical sciences, the ensuing logic of knowledge can provide an adequate critique of the mobility of these results. The choice to explore this possibility in the form of an analysis of Sigwart's Logik (1904) is motivated by the conviction that this work, freed from the constraints of the 20th-century debate, can offer an alternative to the dismissal of the project of a transcendental epistemology. But the Logik is also an access to the lively German post-Kantian laboratory that, at the turn of the twentieth century, produced a model of scientific philosophy that profoundly influenced the following epistemological debate. Hence, this study also aims to introduce the reader to the main epistemological issues addressed by Sigwart and the Kantian tradition to which Sigwart belongs.

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Author Biography

Francesco Pisano, University of Naples Federico II

Francesco Pisano is a postdoc research fellow at the University of Naples "Federico II". He is an adjunct at the "Niccolò Cusano" University of Rome, where he teaches Philosophy of Science and Theory of Personhood. He studied in Naples, Paris, Freiburg and Cologne. In 2022 he obtained a doctorate from the Universities of Wuppertal and Florence. He works on epistemological topics at the intersection of Kantianism, Phenomenology, Neo-Empiricism and Pragmatism. His current research concerns the history of the logic of knowledge between the 19th and 20th centuries and the relationship between transcendental logic and fictionalism.