A Priori

A Priori
Author: Edwin Mares
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317547861

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In recent years many influential philosophers have advocated that philosophy is an a priori science. Yet very few epistemology textbooks discuss a priori knowledge at any length, focusing instead on empirical knowledge and empirical justification. As a priori knowledge has moved centre stage, the literature remains either too technical or too out of date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course. Edwin Mares book aims to rectify this. This book seeks to make accessible to students the standard topics and current debates within a priori knowledge, including necessity and certainty, rationalism, empiricism and analyticity, Quine's attack on the a priori, Kantianism, Aristotelianism, mathematical knowledge, moral knowledge, logical knowledge and philosophical knowledge.

The Notion of the a Priori

The Notion of the a Priori
Author: Mikel Dufrenne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1966
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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What Place for the A Priori?

What Place for the A Priori?
Author: Michael Shaffer
Publisher: Open Court
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-03-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0812697413

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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.

Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge

Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge
Author: Robert Greenberg
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2001-03-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271040475

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The prevailing interpretation of Kant’s First Critique in Anglo-American philosophy views his theory of a priori knowledge as basically a theory about the possibility of empirical knowledge (or experience), or the a priori conditions for that possibility (the representations of space and time and the categories). Instead, Robert Greenberg argues that Kant is more fundamentally concerned with the possibility of a priori knowledge—the very possibility of the possibility of empirical knowledge in the first place. Greenberg advances four central theses:(1) the Critique is primarily concerned about the possibility, or relation to objects, of a priori, not empirical knowledge, and Kant’s theory of that possibility is defensible; (2) Kant’s transcendental ontology must be distinct from the conditions of the possibility of a priori knowledge; (3) the functions of judgment, in Kant’s discussion of the Table of Judgments, should be seen according to his transcendental logic as having content, not as being just logical forms of judgment making; (4) Kant’s distinction between and connection of ordering relations (Verhaltnisse) and reference relations (Beziehungen) have to be kept in mind to avoid misunderstanding the Critique. At every step of the way Greenberg contrasts his view with the major interpretations of Kant by commentators like Henry Allison, Jonathan Bennett, Paul Guyer, and Peter Strawson. Not only does this new approach to Kant present a strong challenge to these dominant interpretations, but by being more true to Kant’s own intent it holds promise for making better sense out of what have been seen as the First Critique’s discordant themes.

A Priori Knowledge

A Priori Knowledge
Author: Paul K. Moser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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This volume provides philosophers and students with important contemporary investigations on a priori knowledge by well-known and influential philosophers, including A. J. Ayer, W. V. Quine, Barry Stroud, and C. I. Lewis.

A Priori Revisability in Science

A Priori Revisability in Science
Author: Boris D. Grozdanoff
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1443861766

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The most influential rationalist model of scientific knowledge is arguably the one formulated recently by Michael Friedman. The central epistemic claim of the model concerns the character of its fundamental principles which are said to be independent from experience. Friedman’s position faces the modern empiricist challenge: he has to explain how the principles could still be a priori if they change under empirical pressure. This book provides a contemporary account of the epistemic character of the principles, addressing recent work on the a priori in modern analytic epistemology. Its main thesis is that at least some principles within natural science are not empirically but a priori revisable. A Priori Revisability in Science formulates a general notion of epistemic revisability and extracts two kinds of specific revisabilities: the traditional empirical one and the suggested novel a priori revisability. It presents the argument that the latter is as vital as the former and even so within natural science. To demonstrate this, the author analyzes two case studies – one from the history of geometry and one from the history of physics – and shows that the revisions were a priori. The result of this is two-fold. First, a genuine alternative of empirical revisability is developed, and not just for traditional a priori domains like mathematics, but for the natural sciences as well. Second, a new mechanism for the dynamics of science is suggested, the a priori dynamics, at the core of which the scientific knowledge sometimes evolves through non-empirical moves.

The A Priori in Philosophy

The A Priori in Philosophy
Author: Albert Casullo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199695334

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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.

Husserl and the A Priori

Husserl and the A Priori
Author: Daniele De Santis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-06-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 303069528X

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This book presents a systematic discussion of the development of Husserl’s concept of the a priori from his early and through his later writings. The chapters contained herein analyze the different phases and aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology of the a priori in light of his twofold notion of reason, construed as both ontological and transcendental. Starting from the assessment of the introduction of the notion of a priori knowledge in the context of the Logical Investigations, this text uniquely explores its development during the Göttingen years. It is at this time during his work on The Crisis of European Sciences, that Husserl comes to see the a priori as a criterion to interpret the history of philosophy, notably, modern philosophy. This book sheds light upon such concepts as: essence and eidos; ideation, eidetic attitude and eidetic reduction; as well as formal and material, innate and contingent a priori. The author argues that the a priori becomes for Husserl the expression of an ontological form of rationality, i.e., the rationality immanent to being. This book appeals to students and researchers working on Husserl and phenomenology.

In Defense of Pure Reason

In Defense of Pure Reason
Author: Laurence BonJour
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521597456

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A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.

Ethics and the A Priori

Ethics and the A Priori
Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-09-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521007733

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