Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521597456
A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.
Author : Michael Shaffer
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812697413
This book deals with questions about the nature of a priori knowledge and its relation to empirical knowledge. Until the twentieth century, it was more or less taken for granted that there was such a thing as a priori knowledge, that is, knowledge whose source is in reason and reflection rather than sensory experience. With a few notable exceptions, philosophers believed that mathematics, logic and philosophy were all a priori. Although the seeds of doubt were planted earlier on, by the early twentieth century, philosophers were widely skeptical of the idea that there was any nontrivial existence of a priori knowledge. By the mid to late twentieth century, it became fashionable to doubt the existence of any kind of a priori knowledge at all. Since many think that philosophy is an a priori discipline if it is any kind of discipline at all, the questions about a priori knowledge are fundamental to our understanding of philosophy itself.
Author : Albert Casullo
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199777861
This book is a collection of essays concerning the concept and existence of a priori knowledge, and the relationship between a priori knowledge and the related concepts of necessary truth and analytic truth.
Author : Albert Casullo
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199695334
For centuries philosophers have attached much importance to a priori knowledge, but recent work in epistemology and experimental philosophy has questioned this. Leading philosophers discuss explanations of the a priori, challenges to its existence, the status of intuition, and the justification of belief—topics at the centre of current debate.
Author : Edwin David Mares
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : A priori
ISBN : 0773539409
Provides an accessible guide to the central questions and most recent areas of debate within the field of a priori knowledge by defending the idea that there is a priori knowledge and that this knowledge is important both in it own right and also for other areas of philosophy, such as metaethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.
Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019152946X
Richard Swinburne offers an original treatment of a question at the heart of epistemology: what makes a belief a rational one, or one which the believer is justified in holding? He maps the various totally different and purportedly rival accounts that philosophers give of epistemic justification ('internalist' and 'externalist'), and argues that they are really accounts of different concepts. He distinguishes (as most epistemologists do not) between synchronic justification (justification at a time) and diachronic justification (synchronic justification resulting from adequate investigation) — both internalist and externalist. He argus that most kinds of justification are worth having because (for different reasons) indicative of truth. However, it is only justification of intermalist kinds that can guide a believer's actions. Swinburne goes on to show the usefulness of the probability calculus in elucidating how empirical evidence makes beliefs probably true: every proposition has an intrinsic probability (an a priori probability independent of empirical evidence) which may be increased or decreased by empirical evidence. This innovative and challenging book will refresh epistemology and rewrite its agenda.
Author : Paul Artin Boghossian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199241260
A priori knowledge and justification have long played a prominent part in epistemology and the theory of meaning. This text offers a variety of approaches to the a priori, examining its role in different areas of philosophical enquiry.
Author : Albert Casullo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198027478
The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systematic treatment of the primary epistemological issues associated with the controversy. By freeing the a priori from traditional assumptions about the nature of knowledge and justification, he offers a novel approach to resolving these issues which assigns a prominent role to empirical evidence. He concludes by arguing that traditional approaches to the a priori, which focus primarily on the concepts of necessity and analyticity, are misguided.
Author : Ram Neta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136339779
Epistemology is one of the oldest, yet still one of the most active, areas of philosophical research today. There currently exists many annotated tomes of primary sources, and a handful of single-authored introductions to the field, but there is no book that captures epistemology’s dynamic growth and lively debates for a student audience. In this volume, eight leading philosophers debate four topics central to recent research in epistemology: The A Priori: C. S. I. Jenkins and Michael Devitt The A Posteriori: Richard Fumerton and Nicholas Silins The Regress of Justification: Declan Smithies and Peter Klein Skepticism: Anthony Brueckner and Ernest Sosa Ram Neta’s introduction to the volume, descriptions of each chapter, annotated bibliographies for each controversy, and supplemental guide to further controversies in epistemology (with bibliographies) help provide clearer and richer views of active controversies for all readers.
Author : John L. Pollock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1400870739
One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology this has led to the search for reductive analyses, to phenomenalism, behaviorism, and their analogues in other areas of knowledge. Arguing that these attempts at reductive analysis have invariably failed, John L. Pollock defends an alternative theory of conceptual analysis in this book. The author suggests that concepts should be analyzed in terms of their justification conditions rather than their truth conditions. After laying a theoretical foundation for this alternative scheme of analysis, Professor Pollock applies his theory in proposing solutions to a number of traditional epistemological problems. Among the areas of knowledge discussed are perception, knowledge of the past, induction, knowledge of other minds, and a priori knowledge. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
