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In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto

By Robert Hanna , Andrew Chapman , Addison Ellis , Tyler Hildebrand , Henry W. Pickford

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
1137347937, 9781137347930
Google Books ID
FfbQAQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2854913 bytes)
Pages
vi+430\437
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-08-25 09:24:36
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Description

Most contemporary philosophers (71.1%, according to a recent survey) believe that a priori knowledge is really possible. Indeed, since the late 1980s there has been a renewed and steadily growing interest in rationalism and the a priori; and gradually what George Bealer has dubbed a rationalist renaissance has emerged onto the contemporary philosophical scene. At the same time, however, even despite this renaissance, the core notion of rational intuition has not been either adequately defended or fully developed, especially as regards solving its two core problems: (1) how rational intuitions can sufficiently justify beliefs, and (2) how to explain the real possibility of rational intuitions. Given that unstable dialectical situation, this book is an attempt to respond critically, directly, and decisively to the most important contemporary skeptical anti-rationalist attacks on intuitions and a priori knowledge in philosophy, and to defend neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, with a special focus on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving its two core problems.

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