Essays on a priori knowledge and justification / Albert Casullo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casullo, Albert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

A priori.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 344 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The past twenty-five years have seen a major renewal of interest in the topic of a priori knowledge. In the sixteen essays collected here, which span this entire period, philosopher Albert Casullo documents the complex set of issues motivating the renewed interest, identifies the central epistemological questions, and provides the leading ideas of a unified response to them. Throughout the essays, Casullo offers a systematic treatment of the concept of a priori knowledge, the existence of a priori knowledge, and the relationship between a priori knowledge and the related concepts of necessary

Contents:

Kripke on the a priori and the necessary

Necessity, certainty, and the a priori

Revisability, reliabilism, and a priori knowledge

Causality, reliabilism, and mathematical knowledge

The coherence of empiricism

A priori knowledge

Epistemic overdetermination and a priori justification

Testimony and a priori knowledge

Analyzing a priori knowledge

Knowledge and modality

Intuition, thought experiments, and the a priori

Counterfactuals and modal knowledge

Conceivability and modal knowledge

Articulating the a priori-a posteriori distinction.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-939575-6

1-283-44563-8

9786613445636

0-19-977797-7

OCLC:

773934063