A priori knowledge : toward a phenomenological explanation /
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| Author / Creator: | Piazza, Tommaso, 1972- |
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 193 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Phenomenology & mind ; Bd. 10 Phenomenology & mind ; Bd. 10. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201438 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; 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 InferenceDummett's Objection; Rule Following Considerations and the Adoption of a Convention; Summarising Remarks; Wright's Attack; Conclusion; 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 EpistemicIrresponsibility; Realism, the A priori and Rational Insight.
- Boghossian's Argument against RelativismEpistemological 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.