New essays on the a priori / edited by Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boghossian, Paul A. (Paul Artin), 1957-

Peacocke, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

A priori.

Physical Description:

xi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

A stellar line-up of leading philosophers from around the world offer new treatments of a topic which has long been central to philosophical debate, and in which there has recently been a surge of interest. The a priori is the category of knowledge that is supposed to be independent of experience. The contributors offer a variety of approaches to the a priori and examine its role in different areas of philosophical inquiry. The editors' introduction offers an ideal way into the discussions.

Contents:

Introduction / Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke.

Frege on apriority / Tyler Burge.

Rationalism, empiricism, and the A Priori / Quassim Cassam.

A priori knowledge revisited / Philip Kitcher.

Naturalism and the A Priori / Penelope Maddy.

Apriority as an evaluative notion / Hartry Field.

Stipulation, meaning, and apriority / Paul Horwich.

A priori rules: Wittgenstein on the normativity of logic / Peter Railton.

Apriority and existence / Stephen Yablo.

Knowledge of logic / Paul Boghossian.

Explaining the A Priori: the programme of moderate rationalism / Christopher Peacocke.

Implicit definition and the A priori / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright.

Representation, scepticism, and the A Priori / Frank Jackson.

The status of logic / Stewart Shapiro.

Transcendental philosophy and A Priori knowledge: a neo-kantian perspective / Michael Friedman.

Externalism and armchair knowledge / Martin Davies.

Externalism and A Priori knowledge of empirical facts / Bill Brewer.

The psychophysical nexus / Thomas Nagel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199241260

0199241279

OCLC:

44613055