Subject: Philosophy Book Title: New Essays on the A Priori
New Essays on the A Priori
Boghossian, Paul (Editor),
Professor of Philosophy,
New York University
Peacocke, Christopher (Editor),
Professor of Philosophy,
New York University
Print publication date: 2000
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924127-9 doi:10.1093/0199241279.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
This collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by NYU philosophers Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke, resumes the current surge of interest in the proper explication of the notion of a priori. The authors discuss the relations of the a priori to the notions of definition, meaning, justification, and ontology, explore how the concept figured historically in the philosophies of Leibniz, Kant, Frege, and Wittgenstein, and address its role in the contemporary philosophies of logic, mathematics, mind, and science. The editors’ Introduction familiarizes the reader with the issues that are to be explored in detail in later parts of the anthology.
Keywords: a priori, Paul Boghossian, definition, Frege, justification, Kant, Leibniz, logic, mathematics, meaning, mind, ontology, Christopher Peacocke, science, Wittgenstein Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Frege on Apriority
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Rationalism, Empiricism, and the A Priori
4.
A Priori Knowledge Revisited
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Naturalism and the A Priori
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Apriority as an Evaluative Notion
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Stipulation, Meaning, and Apriority
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A Priori Rules: Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Logic
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Apriority and Existence
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Knowledge of Logic
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Explaining the A Priori: The Programme of Moderate Rationalism
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Implicit Definition and the A Priori
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Representation, Scepticism, and the A Priori
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The Status of Logic
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Transcendental Philosophy and A Priori Knowledge: A Neo-Kantian Perspective
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Externalism and Armchair Knowledge
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Externalism and A Priori Knowledge of Empricial Facts
18.
The Psychophysical Nexus
Index
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doi:10.1093/0199241279.001.0001
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