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Abducting the a priori
Intuition-based accounts of the a priori are criticised for appealing to a “mysterious” faculty of rational intuition to explain how a priori...
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Two kinds of a priori justification
John Bengson holds that an intellectual seeming is sufficient for a priori justification, whereas Elijah Chudnoff disagrees and holds that a priori...
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Contingent A Priori Truths Metaphysics, Semantics, Epistemology and Pragmatics
This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and...
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Imagination and the a priori
What is the role of imagination in a priori knowledge? Here I provide a partial answer, arguing that imagination can be used to shed light on which...
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What Is the A Priori?
In this chapter, I attempt to elucidate the concepts of “a priori method”, “a priori warrant”, and “a priori knowledge”. I elucidate these concepts...
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A Priori Knowledge and Infallibility
This chapter is devoted to an analysis of the relationship between a priori knowledge – as partly characterized by the proposed analysis of the...
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A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective....
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Kitcher’s Views on A Priori Knowledge
Hale’s defense of the notion of a priori knowledge takes the form of a response to Philip Kitcher. He is the first philosopher who most carefully has...
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Kant’s Views on A Priori Knowledge
The task of this chapter is to closely examine Kant’s views on a priori knowledge. His views will be examined in detail and some of the questions and...
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Quine’s Views on A Priori Knowledge
In this chapter I shall closely examine Quine’s criticisms of the notion of a prioricity. There is ample justification to examine Quine’s position:...
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Putnam’s Views on A Priori Knowledge
The focus of this chapter is Putnam’s various views about the connection between the notion of a priori knowledge and the issue of...
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Essence, modality, and the material a Priori: Scheler and Contemporary Essentialism
This paper attempts to demonstrate Max Scheler’s anticipation of and continued relevance to a burgeoning trend of essence-based accounts of modality,...
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Rational belief, epistemic possibility, and the a priori
In this paper, I discuss Whiting’s (
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Husserl and the A Priori Phenomenology and Rationality
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....
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Hale’s General Epistemological Views Regarding A Priori Knowledge
In this chapter I introduce Hale’s general views regarding a priori knowledge. He is the first philosopher who most carefully has scrutinized Philip...
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Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox
The conclusion of the McKinsey paradox is that certain contingent claims about the external world are knowable a priori. Almost all of the literature...
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Kripke’s Reformulation of the Contingent A Priori
In this chapter, I discuss the most significant revisions made by Kripke in his position regarding contingent a priori truths in his later lectures...
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A Priori Publication Agreements to Improve Adherence to Ethics in Research Publications
The field of ethics in research publications focuses on creating generally agreed-to academic standards, values, and norms for conducting and...
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Global Conclusions: The Varieties of Contingent A Priori Truths
In this chapter, I list some important conclusion from the discussion in the book. First, contra Evans, that the source of contingent a priori truths...
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Grounding and a priori epistemology: challenges for conceptualism
Traditional rationalist approaches to a priori epistemology have long been looked upon with suspicion for positing a faculty of rational intuition...