ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Husserl’s theory of judgment in relation to the traditional debates about the nature and content of judgment in the history of Western philosophy and in relation to more recent debates relating to judgment in contemporary philosophy of mind. It shows that Husserl’s theory of judgment is a central part of his overall theory of mind and a focus of his phenomenological epistemology. It demonstrates how Husserl’s conception of judgment as a multi-faceted and layered phenomenon reconciles the two dominant competing views in the traditional debate about judgment in the Western tradition (the Aristotelian and post-Cartesian views). And it shows how Husserl’s theory of judgment offers insights that can advance three debates in recent philosophy of mind concerning the transparency of belief, the objects of judgment, and rational agency.
