Late froms of Psychologism and Antipsychologism

Abstract

Antipsychologism is no longer a compelling issue, not because psychologism affords the right analysis of logic and knowledge, but because the relevant forms of necessity are viewed differently since Frege's and Husserl's broadsides. Two dicta help sort late forms of psychologism and antipsychologism: (1) if Platonism is true, psychologism is false; (2) unacceptable forms of skepticism follow from principled disjunctions between epistemological, ontological and psychological analysis of the "mental." Apart from Frege and Husserl, the analysis reviews the views of J.N. Mohanty, Michael Dummett, W.V. Quine and Rudolf Carnap at least.