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New essays on the a priori

A priori knowledge and justification have long played a prominent part in epistemology and the theory of meaning. This text offers a variety of approaches to the a priori, examining its role in different areas of philosophical enquiry
eBook, English, 2000
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
1 online resource (xi, 478 pages)
9780191529078, 9780199241279, 9780199241262, 0191529079, 0199241279, 0199241260
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Introduction / Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke
Frege on apriority / Tyler Burge
Rationalism, empiricism, and the A Priori / Quassim Cassam
A priori knowledge revisited / Philip Kitcher
Naturalism and the A Priori / Penelope Maddy
Apriority as an evaluative notion / Hartry Field
Stipulation, meaning, and apriority / Paul Horwich
A priori rules: Wittgenstein on the normativity of logic / Peter Railton
Apriority and existence / Stephen Yablo
Knowledge of logic / Paul Boghossian
Explaining the A Priori: the programme of moderate rationalism / Christopher Peacocke
Implicit definition and the A priori / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
Representation, scepticism, and the A Priori / Frank Jackson
The status of logic / Stewart Shapiro
Transcendental philosophy and A Priori knowledge: a neo-kantian perspective / Michael Friedman
Externalism and armchair knowledge / Martin Davies
Externalism and A Priori knowledge of empirical facts / Bill Brewer. The psychophysical nexus / Thomas Nagel