Essays on a priori knowledge and justification
By: Albert Casullo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780199777860
Subjects: A priori
Description: Provides an important historical record of the development of investigations into the a priori during a critical period in which it emerged from being a rather arcane topic in the epistemological literature to occupying a central role.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: Kripke on the a priori and the necessary; title: Necessity, certainty, and the a priori; title: Revisability, reliabilism, and a priori knowledge; title: Causality, reliabilism, and mathematical knowledge; title: The coherence of empiricism; title: A priori knowledge; title: Epistemic overdetermination and a priori justification; title: Testimony and a priori knowledge; title: Analyzing a priori knowledge; title: Knowledge and modality; title: Intuition, thought experiments, and the a priori; title: Counterfactuals and modal knowledge; title: Conceivability and modal knowledge; title: Articulating the a priori-a posteriori distinction.