A Priori Knowledge: Toward a Phenomenological Explanation

ISBN-13: 9783110325034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 193 str.

Tommaso Piazza

Opis

The series is devoted to monographs and anthologies on Austrian philosophy (Bolzano, Brentano, Meinong and others) as well as on phenomenology and its history in general. Moreover, the series is open to a wide variety of different approaches in the philosophy of mind.

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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 inference
Dummett s Objection
Rule Following considerations and the adoption of a convention
Summarising Remarks
Wright s Attack
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 Epistemic Irresponsibility
Realism, the A priori and Rational Insight
Boghossian s Argument against Relativism
Epistemological 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