A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification

Ivette Fred-Rivera (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIX, 230 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-06876-8 (ISBN)

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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant's views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and Hale are discussed in detail and are put into a historical and systematic perspective. Finally, this book contains a glossary of important notions offering illuminating accounts of a priori knowledge and related notions and explains the relationship between a priori knowledge, fallibility and revision. The detailing of concepts such as 'defeasibility', 'infallibility', 'falsifiability' helps anyone reading philosophical literature to pin down the meaning of the terms and its implications in this context. The enriched and dual approach the author takes makes the book a very useful and lucid guide to the problem of a priori knowledge.

lt;p>Ivette Fred-Rivera is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus since 1998. She obtained her Ph. D. in Philosophy at City University of New York Graduate Center in 1997. She was active in graduate research and / or teaching at the Department of Logic and Metaphysics of The University of St. Andrews and at the Department of Philosophie, Logik und Wissenshaftstheorie of the University of Munich, from 1994-1999. Her research areas are epistemology, philosophy of language, and logic. She is editor of Being Necessary: Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale (OUP, 2018, with Jessica Leech). She also has published works on aesthetics and art. Ivette Fred-Rivera is a world traveler and a photographer and regularly visits and lectures in important universities in Asia.

General Introduction: The problem of a priori knowledge.- Part I.- 1. Kant's views about a priori knowledge.- 2. Quine's views about a priori knowledge.- 3. Putnam's views about a priori knowledge.- Part Two.- 4. Hale's general epistemological views regarding a priori knowledge.- 5. Kitcher's views on a priori knowledge.- 6. Hale's reactions to Kitcher's views.- 7. "Pure" Hale and Related Issues.- 8. Critical examination of Hale's views on a priori knowledge Abstract Objects.- Part 3.- 9. What is the a priori?.- 10. A priori knowledge and Infallibility.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 230 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	a priori knowledge • Kant's views on a priori knowledge • Kitcher's views on a priori knowledge • Necessity and universality • Putnam's views on a priori knowledge • Quine's views about a priori knowledge • revision of a priori statements • The problem of a priori knowledge
ISBN-10	3-031-06876-9 / 3031068769
ISBN-13	978-3-031-06876-8 / 9783031068768
Zustand	Neuware