Michael J. Shaffer, Michael L. Veber

What Place for the A Priori? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Court
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812697414
• Artikelnr.: 38233386

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Shaffer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University.
Michael L. Veber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University.