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A Priori

By Edwin Mares

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
0773539417, 9780773539419
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10525376 bytes)
Series
Central Problems of Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
240\240
Time added
2021-04-23 00:46:45
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Description

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 As a priori knowledge has moved centre stage, the literature remains either too technical or too out of date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course.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.

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