What place for the a priori? / edited by Michael J. Shaffer and Michael L. Veber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaffer, Michael J., 1970-

Veber, Michael L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

A priori.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. No Place for the A Priori -MICHAEL DEVITT; 2. Evidence-based Psychotherapy: Values and the A Priori -EDWARD ERWIN; 3. The Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge -DAVID PAPINEAU; 4. Albert Casullo's A Priori Justification -ANTHONY BRUECKNER; 5. Experience as a Natural Kind: Reflections on Albert Casullo's A Priori Justification -ROBIN JESHION; 6. Reply to my Critics: Anthony Brueckner and Robin Jeshion -ALBERT CASULLO; 7. Epistemological Empiricism -HAROLD I. BROWN; 8. A Dilemma for Naturalized Epistemology? -SHANE OAKLEY

9. A Reconsideration of the Status of Newton's Laws -DAVID J. STUMP 10. The Constitutive A Priori and Epistemic Justification -MICHAEL J. SHAFFER; 11. A Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics: The Comprehensibility of the Universe -NICHOLAS MAXWELL; 12. Terror of Knowing: Can an Empiricist Avoid Unwanted A Priori Knowledge? -ÜMIT D. YALÇiN; Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-60506-9

9786613785756

0-8126-9741-3

OCLC:

712016027