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Book Synopsis In Defense of Pure Reason by : Laurence BonJour
Download or read book In Defense of Pure Reason written by Laurence BonJour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.
Book Synopsis A Priori Justification by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book A Priori Justification written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of a priori knowledge has been central to analytic philosophy for the past two centuries. Casullo's book, based on previously published and unpublished work, systematically addresses questions that have, since Kant, formed the core of the debate.
Book Synopsis Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification written by Albert Casullo and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays concerning the concept and existence of a priori knowledge, and the relationship between a priori knowledge and the related concepts of necessary truth and analytic truth.
Book Synopsis What Place for the A Priori? by : Michael J. Shaffer
Download or read book What Place for the A Priori? written by Michael J. Shaffer and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Priori Justification by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book A Priori Justification written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systematic treatment of the primary epistemological issues associated with the controversy. By freeing the a priori from traditional assumptions about the nature of knowledge and justification, he offers a novel approach to resolving these issues which assigns a prominent role to empirical evidence. He concludes by arguing that traditional approaches to the a priori, which focus primarily on the concepts of necessity and analyticity, are misguided.
Book Synopsis The A Priori in Philosophy by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book The A Priori in Philosophy written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Priori Justification by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book A Priori Justification written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systematic treatment of the primary epistemological issues associated with the controversy. By freeing the a priori from traditional assumptions about the nature of knowledge and justification, he offers a novel approach to resolving these issues which assigns a prominent role to empirical evidence. He concludes by arguing that traditional approaches to the a priori, which focus primarily on the concepts of necessity and analyticity, are misguided.
Book Synopsis New Essays on the a Priori by : Paul Artin Boghossian
Download or read book New Essays on the a Priori written by Paul Artin Boghossian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priori knowledge and justification have long played a prominent part in epistemology and the theory of meaning. This text offers a variety of approaches to the a priori, examining its role in different areas of philosophical enquiry.
Book Synopsis Content and Justification by : Paul A. Boghossian
Download or read book Content and Justification written by Paul A. Boghossian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a series of influential essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. The essays are organized under four headings: the nature of content; content and self-knowledge; knowledge, content, and the a priori; and colour concepts.
Book Synopsis Epistemic Justification by : Richard Swinburne
Download or read book Epistemic Justification written by Richard Swinburne and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Swinburne offers an original treatment of a question at the heart of epistemology: what makes a belief a rational one, or one which the believer is justified in holding? He maps the various totally different and purportedly rival accounts that philosophers give of epistemic justification ('internalist' and 'externalist'), and argues that they are really accounts of different concepts. He distinguishes (as most epistemologists do not) between synchronic justification (justification at a time) and diachronic justification (synchronic justification resulting from adequate investigation) — both internalist and externalist. He argus that most kinds of justification are worth having because (for different reasons) indicative of truth. However, it is only justification of intermalist kinds that can guide a believer's actions. Swinburne goes on to show the usefulness of the probability calculus in elucidating how empirical evidence makes beliefs probably true: every proposition has an intrinsic probability (an a priori probability independent of empirical evidence) which may be increased or decreased by empirical evidence. This innovative and challenging book will refresh epistemology and rewrite its agenda.
Book Synopsis Scepticism and Perceptual Justification by : Dylan Dodd
Download or read book Scepticism and Perceptual Justification written by Dylan Dodd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on scepticism about the senses explore the problem of whether and how experience can provide knowledge or justification for belief about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind.
Book Synopsis Reason and Explanation by : T. Poston
Download or read book Reason and Explanation written by T. Poston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.
Download or read book A Priori written by Edwin Mares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Justification and Emancipation by : Amy Allen
Download or read book Justification and Emancipation written by Amy Allen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is both an introduction to and a critical appraisal of the work of Rainer Forst, one of the most important political theorists in Germany today. Structured for classroom use, this collection of original essays engages with Forst’s extant corpus in ways that are both appreciative and critical. Forst is an original, prolific, and widely known member of the “fourth generation” of Frankfurt School theorists. His significant contributions include a Rawlsian-Habermasian conception of justice that takes seriously the dissent of citizens and moral agents; an original interpretation and analysis of the concept of toleration; and, most recently, a generative idea of “noumenal power,” to which every human being has a claim by virtue of their equal standing within the moral community of all rational beings. Opening with an essay by Forst on the normative conception of progress and closing with a reply to his critics, this volume is both a primer on and a window into the latest contributions to the tradition of critical theory. In addition to the editors, the contributors include John Christman, Mattias Iser, Catherine Lu, John P. McCormick, Sarah Clark Miller, and Melissa Yates.
Book Synopsis Hume's Problem Solved by : Gerhard Schurz
Download or read book Hume's Problem Solved written by Gerhard Schurz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction. Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem. Acknowledging the force of Hume's arguments against the possibility of a noncircular justification of the reliability of induction, Schurz demonstrates instead the possibility of a noncircular justification of the optimality of induction, or, more precisely, of meta-induction (the application of induction to competing prediction models). Drawing on discoveries in computational learning theory, Schurz demonstrates that a regret-based learning strategy, attractivity-weighted meta-induction, is predictively optimal in all possible worlds among all prediction methods accessible to the epistemic agent. Moreover, the a priori justification of meta-induction generates a noncircular a posteriori justification of object induction. Taken together, these two results provide a noncircular solution to Hume's problem. Schurz discusses the philosophical debate on the problem of induction, addressing all major attempts at a solution to Hume's problem and describing their shortcomings; presents a series of theorems, accompanied by a description of computer simulations illustrating the content of these theorems (with proofs presented in a mathematical appendix); and defends, refines, and applies core insights regarding the optimality of meta-induction, explaining applications in neighboring disciplines including forecasting sciences, cognitive science, social epistemology, and generalized evolution theory. Finally, Schurz generalizes the method of optimality-based justification to a new strategy of justification in epistemology, arguing that optimality justifications can avoid the problems of justificatory circularity and regress.
Book Synopsis A Priori Knowledge by : Albert Casullo
Download or read book A Priori Knowledge written by Albert Casullo and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling some of the issues concerning a priori knowledge, this book attempts to identify the primary epistemological issues and explore the relationships among them. Four main questions are tackled: what is a priori knowledge?; is there a priori knowledge?; what is the relationship between the a priori and the necessary?; and what is the relationship between the a priori and the analytic?
Book Synopsis The Structure of Justification by : Robert Audi
Download or read book The Structure of Justification written by Robert Audi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers transcends two of the most widely misunderstood positions in philosophy - foundationalism and coherentism.
