What Place for the a Priori?

by Shaffer, Michael J.; Veber, Michael L.

• ISBN13: 9780812696608
• ISBN10: 0812696603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

A priori knowledge is alleged to be knowledge whose justification requires no appeal to experience. The issue of whether or not there is a priori knowledge so defined has been a central topic of debate in philosophy since its very beginning. Plato and Aristotle differed on this matter in antiquity, and so did the rationalists and empiricists in early modernity. The issue remains a bone of contention to this day.

Author Biography

Michael J. Shaffer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud. Minnesota. Michael L. Veber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
No Place for the A Priori	p. 9
Evidence-based Psychotherapy: Values and the A Priori	p. 33
The Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge	p. 61
Albert Casullo's A Priori Justification	p. 85
Experience as a Natural Kind: Reflections on Albert Casullo's A Priori Justification	p. 93
Reply to my Critics: Anthony Brueckner and Robin Jeshion	p. 111
Epistemological Empiricism	p. 137
A Dilemma for Naturalized Epistemology?	p. 157
A Reconsideration of the Status of Newton's Laws	p. 177
The Constitutive A Priori and Epistemic Justification	p. 193
A Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics: The Comprehensibility of the Universe	p. 211
Terror of Knowing: Can an Empiricist Avoid Unwanted A Priori Knowledge?	p. 241
Index	p. 259
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