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A priori knowledge : toward a phenomenological explanation /
The book sets out to analyze the notion of a priori justification and of a priori knowledge. The most influential explanations of the a priori within the contemporary analytic tradition are analyzed. It is shown that the theories which group around the notion of implicit definition ultimately entail...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt ; New Brunswick :
Ontos Verlag,
2007.
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| Colección: | Phenomenology & mind ;
Bd. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. A Priori, Analyticity, and Implicit Definition; Empiricism, Analyticity, and the A Priori; Reductive and Non-Reductive Conceptions of Analyticity; Implicit Definition, Logical Truth, and the Recalcitrant A Priori; Problems with Implicit Definition; BonJour's Objection; Fodor and Lepore's Objection; Horwich's Objection; Hale and Wright's Defence of the Traditional Connection; Logic and Convention; Coda; 2. Realism about Logic; Introduction; Logical Principles, Justification, and Epistemic Relativity; Objective Truth; Resnik's Attack.
- Wittgenstein on the Necessity of "1 inch = 2.54 cm" and Logical InferenceDummett's Objection; Rule Following Considerations and the Adoption of a Convention; Summarising Remarks; Wright's Attack; Conclusion; 3. Objective Knowledge; Introduction; What the Tortoise Said to Boghossian; What Boghossian would say to the Tortoise; Rule-circular Arguments; The Side-Argument; Rejecting the Side-Argument; First Horn: Simple Internalism and Rational Insight; Second Horn: Epistemic Responsibility and the Lack of EpistemicIrresponsibility; Realism, the A priori and Rational Insight.
- Boghossian's Argument against RelativismEpistemological Realism about Justification; Conclusion; 4. Phenomenology and Rational Insight; Naturalism and Justification; Phenomenology, Justification, and Eidetic Seeing; Is Holism a Possibility for the Empiricist?; Intuition of Essences and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction; Husserl's Conception of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction; Eidetic Variation; Passive Synthesis and Concept Constitution; Knowledge of Reality and Conceptual Truth; Absolute vs Relative Objectivity; Are Conceptual Truths True?; Conclusion; References.