Author : Paul Artin Boghossian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 32,29 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 : Michael Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521007733
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Author : Michael Shaffer
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,55 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 :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 18,13 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 : Albert Casullo
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 10,89 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 : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1987
Category : A priori.
ISBN : 9780198750833
Many philosophers are again examining the traditional topic of a priori knowledge, or knowledge that does not depend on sensory experience. This volume collects the most important recent essays on the subject by well-known thinkers such as A.J. Ayer, W.V. Quine, Barry Stroud, C.I. Lewis, Hilary Putnam, Roderick M. Chisholm, Saul A. Kripke, Albert Casullo, R.G. Swinburne, and Philip Kitcher. Including an introduction by the editor and an extensive bibliography, this book provides philosophers and students with an in-depth look at contemporary investigations into the nature of a priori knowledge.
Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,97 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 : Matthew H. Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019936320X
This volume of new essays, written by leading philosophers of science, explores a broadly methodological question: what role should metaphysics play in our philosophizing about science? The essays address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and by more general methodological investigations.
Author : Ivette Fred-Rivera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031068742
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and Hale are discussed in detail and are put into a historical and systematic perspective. Finally, this book contains a glossary of important notions offering illuminating accounts of a priori knowledge and related notions and explains the relationship between a priori knowledge, fallibility and revision. The detailing of concepts such as ‘defeasibility’, ‘infallibility’, ‘falsifiability’ helps anyone reading philosophical literature to pin down the meaning of the terms and its implications in this context. The enriched and dual approach the author takes makes the book a very useful and lucid guide to the problem of a priori knowledge.
Author : Stephan Blatti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019960875X
What are we? What is the nature of the human person? Animalism has a straightforward answer to these long-standing philosophical questions: we are animals. Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring this increasingly popular view, some defending animalism, others criticizing it, and others exploring its more philosophical implications.
