约翰·穆勒的心理主义辨析

约翰·穆勒的逻辑哲学一直被当作心理主义的主要代表.但是近些年来,西方哲学界越来越多的学者指出,穆勒的观点和立场实际遭受了误读.事实上,只要更仔细地研读穆勒本人的经典文本,我们就不难发现,穆勒对自己的心理主义做了严格的限定:他一方面断言,作为一项技艺的逻辑学从作为一门科学的逻辑学那里获得全部的理论基础,而作为科学的逻辑学广义上乃是心理学的一部分;另一方面他又断言逻辑学可以从心理学那里获得理论构造方面的启示.但是他并未一般地主张逻辑学必须从心理学那里寻求理论奠基.

On John Stuart Mill's Psychologism

John Stuart Mill's philosophy of logic has always been regarded as the main representative of psychologism.In recent years,however,more and more western scholars point out that Mill's points of view and theoretical position have been misunderstood. In fact,once we take a closer examination on some of his classical texts,it's not very difficult for us to find that Mill's psychologism was strictly limited by himself.On the one hand,he asserted that the logic as an art got its theoretical basis from the logic ...