Casullo, Albert Professor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511505-5







doi:10.1093/0195115058.003.0002

Albert Casullo
Abstract: This chapter provides a taxonomy of widely endorsed conditions on a priori justification. The conditions fall into two broad categories: epistemic, which includes defeasibility, strength, and source conditions; and nonepistemic, which involves the concepts of analyticity or necessity. Two major claims are argued: (1) nonepistemic conditions are neither necessary nor sufficient for a priori justification, and (2) if a theory imposes epistemic conditions on the a priori that differ from those it imposes on the a posteriori, they must be supported by independent argument or rejected as ad hoc. Two defensible conditions on a priori justification emerge: justification by a nonexperiential source, and justification that is not defeasible by experience.

Keywords: analyticity, defeasibility, defeasible, epistemic, experiential, necessity, nonepistemic, nonexperiential, source, strength,

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Part I What is a Priori Knowledge?
Part II Is There a Priori Knowledge?
Part III What are the Relationships?