A Priori

Edwin Mares

doi:10.1017/UPO9781844652860

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 As a priori knowledge has moved centre stage, the literature remains either too technical or too out of date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course.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. The 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, Quines attack on the a priori, Kantianism, Aristotelianism, mathematical knowledge, moral knowledge, logical knowledge and philosophical knowledge.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Part I

1 - Introduction
pp 1-12

2 - Necessity and certainty
pp 13-33

Part II

3 - Rationalism and self-evidence
pp 34-53

4 - Nativism
pp 54-65

5 - Analyticity
pp 66-82

6 - Radical empiricism
pp 83-105

7 - Kantianism
pp 106-122

8 - Aristotelianism
pp 123-137

Part III

9 - Moral knowledge
pp 138-154

10 - Logical knowledge
pp 155-173

11 - Mathematical knowledge
pp 174-188

12 - Modality
pp 189-204

13 - Scorecard
pp 205-208

Notes
pp 209-216

Bibliography
pp 217-224

Index
pp 225-229

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