What Place for the A Priori?

What Place for the A Priori?
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Publisher : Open Court
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780812697414
ISBN-13 : 0812697413
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Book Synopsis What Place for the A Priori? by : Michael Shaffer

Download or read book What Place for the A Priori? written by Michael Shaffer and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 272 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.


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