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Lucy O'Brien: One act of mind (in James Conant & Jesse M. Mulder (eds.), Reading R枚dl: on Self-consciousness and objectivity. Routledge (2023)

For R枚dl, any judging P is also, and thereby, a thinking I judge that P, and vice versa. This chapter aims to clarify what it might mean to think that judging, and thinking oneself so to judge, are in this way 鈥渙ne act of mind鈥�. The aim at clarification proceeds via two lines of argument. One suggests that, taken at face value, R枚dl鈥檚 line of thinking leads to infinite regress, the other, that it leads to contradiction. The central worry is that the way of thinking of first-personal judgments in Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is insufficiently sensitive to the first-person perspective and its importance. Indeed, there emerges a kind of skepticism of any such thing.

The chapter then suggests a very general way of thinking about judgment as an agential exercise of rational powers, and suggests that we might be able to make sense of a present-tense judging that P coinciding with a present-tense thinking oneself to judge that P, in virtue of such judgments giving us identical powers to reason and know. R枚dl, however, wants to resist any such resolution, or indeed any such interrogation into the metaphysics of judgment. That leaves one puzzled about why he is not puzzled by the problems that this chapter started with.