A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification

A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9783031068744
ISBN-13 : 3031068742
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Synopsis A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification by : Ivette Fred-Rivera

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and Hale are discussed in detail and are put into a historical and systematic perspective. Finally, this book contains a glossary of important notions offering illuminating accounts of a priori knowledge and related notions and explains the relationship between a priori knowledge, fallibility and revision. The detailing of concepts such as ‘defeasibility’, ‘infallibility’, ‘falsifiability’ helps anyone reading philosophical literature to pin down the meaning of the terms and its implications in this context. The enriched and dual approach the author takes makes the book a very useful and lucid guide to the problem of a priori knowledge.

Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification

Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9780199777860
ISBN-13 : 0199777861
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification by : Albert Casullo

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.

In Defense of Pure Reason

In Defense of Pure Reason
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0521597455
ISBN-13 : 9780521597456
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis In Defense of Pure Reason by : Laurence BonJour

A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.

Moral Knowledge

Moral Knowledge
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780198805410
ISBN-13 : 0198805411
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Moral Knowledge by : Sarah McGrath

How fragile is our knowledge of morality, compared to other kinds of knowledge? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds? Sarah McGrath offers new answers to these questions as she explores the possibilities, sources and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge.

Kant & Phenomenology

Kant & Phenomenology
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780226723419
ISBN-13 : 0226723410
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Synopsis Kant & Phenomenology by : Tom Rockmore

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century—and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who eventually turned phenomenology away from questions of knowledge. But here Tom Rockmore argues for a return to phenomenology’s origins in epistemology, and he does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant. Kant and Phenomenology traces the formulation of Kant’s phenomenological approach back to the second edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In response to various criticisms of the first edition, Kant more forcefully put forth a constructivist theory of knowledge. This shift in Kant’s thinking challenged the representational approach to epistemology, and it is this turn, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the first great phenomenologist. He then follows this phenomenological line through the work of Kant’s idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel. Steeped in the sources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our conception of both of its main subjects.

Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy

Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 558
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ISBN-10 : 9780816612123
ISBN-13 : 0816612129
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Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy by : Peter A. French

Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The authors of the 27 appears in Volume 8, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,have established reputations as historians of philosophy, but their vantage point, here, is from "contemporary perspectives" - they use contemporary analytic skills to examine problems and issues considered by past philosophers. The papers, arranged in historical order, fall into six groups: ancient philosophy (the Pythagoreans, Plato, and Aristotle); the seventeenth-century rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza); the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume); Kant; the nineteenth century (Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Mill); and, in conclusion, an essay on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and two broad, retrospective papers entitled "Old Analyses of the Physical World and new Philosophies of Language" and "Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics."

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
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Publisher : Polity
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780745633176
ISBN-13 : 074563317X
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by : Dan O'Brien

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of knowledge. Part II surveys the sources of knowledge, considering both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Parts III and IV provide an in-depth discussion of justification and scepticism. The final part of the book examines our alleged knowledge of the past, other minds, morality and God. O'Brien uses engaging examples throughout the book, taking many from literature and the cinema. He explains complex issues, such as those concerning the private language argument, non-conceptual content, and the new riddle of induction, in a clear and accessible way. This textbook is an invaluable guide to contemporary epistemology.

Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge

Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781443886277
ISBN-13 : 1443886270
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge by : Paolo Piccari

Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. However, ordinary knowledge is not only the result of sensory-perceptual processes, but also of non-perceptual (noetic) contents that are present in any mind. From an epistemological point of view, ordinary knowledge is a form of knowledge that not only allows epistemic access to the world, but also enables the formulation of models of it with different degrees of reliability. Usually epistemologists focus their attention on scientific knowledge, believing that ordinary knowledge does not, or cannot, have an epistemology for it is not in any way rigorous. The papers collected in this volume analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.

Transcendental Philosophy and Everyday Experience

Transcendental Philosophy and Everyday Experience
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Publisher : Humanities Press International
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015039040582
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Synopsis Transcendental Philosophy and Everyday Experience by : Tom Rockmore

This collection focuses on the transcendental philosophy of Kant and Husserl and on the intersection of transcendental philosophy and everyday life and experience. It contains sections on philosophy and everyday experience, Kant and neo-Kantianism, applications of transcendental philosophy, and transcendental philosophy and the emotions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR