A Priori Revisability in Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Priori Revisability in Science write by Boris D. Grozdanoff. This book was released on 2014-06-19. A Priori Revisability in Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most influential rationalist model of scientific knowledge is arguably the one formulated recently by Michael Friedman. The central epistemic claim of the model concerns the character of its fundamental principles which are said to be independent from experience. Friedman’s position faces the modern empiricist challenge: he has to explain how the principles could still be a priori if they change under empirical pressure. This book provides a contemporary account of the epistemic character of the principles, addressing recent work on the a priori in modern analytic epistemology. Its main thesis is that at least some principles within natural science are not empirically but a priori revisable. A Priori Revisability in Science formulates a general notion of epistemic revisability and extracts two kinds of specific revisabilities: the traditional empirical one and the suggested novel a priori revisability. It presents the argument that the latter is as vital as the former and even so within natural science. To demonstrate this, the author analyzes two case studies – one from the history of geometry and one from the history of physics – and shows that the revisions were a priori. The result of this is two-fold. First, a genuine alternative of empirical revisability is developed, and not just for traditional a priori domains like mathematics, but for the natural sciences as well. Second, a new mechanism for the dynamics of science is suggested, the a priori dynamics, at the core of which the scientific knowledge sometimes evolves through non-empirical moves.
The Constitutive A Priori
The Constitutive A Priori - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constitutive A Priori write by Arthur Sullivan. This book was released on 2018-04-06. The Constitutive A Priori available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of the a priori—can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?—is a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and recent decades have seen some provocative and potentially epochal work on the issue. Arthur Sullivan provides a clear-headed evaluation of the upshot of these developments. He argues that the notion of the constitutive a priori provides the best means, all things considered, of accommodating these recent developments into a coherent, compelling view. The constitutive a priori is most commonly known as a position within the philosophy of science, holding that one of Kant’s signature moves provides the means to incorporate unforeseen drastic shocks into existing theory. This book shows that this notion of the constitutive a priori provides not merely a satisfactory epistemological framework, but, further, a compelling way to accommodate and integrate some of the most significant lessons learned in twentieth century philosophy. Its distinctive contribution lies in the case it builds for taking this constitutive a priori orientation as a good means of integrating and consolidating certain epochal insights of Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Kripke, and Kaplan.
The a Priori in Physical Theory
The a Priori in Physical Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The a Priori in Physical Theory write by Arthur Pap. This book was released on 1968. The a Priori in Physical Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification write by Ivette Fred-Rivera. This book was released on 2022-08-10. A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
New Essays on the A Priori
New Essays on the A Priori - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Essays on the A Priori write by Paul Boghossian. This book was released on 2000-10-26. New Essays on the A Priori available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The topics of a priori knowledge and a priori justification have long played a prominent part in epistemology and the theory of meaning. Recently there has been a surge of interest in the proper explication of these notions. These newly commissioned essays, by a distinguished, international group of philosophers, will have a substantial influence on later work in this area. They discuss the relations of the a priori to meaning, justification, definition and ontology; they consider the role of the notion in Leibniz, Kant, Frege and Wittgenstein; and they address its role in recent discussions in the philosophy of mind. Particular attention is also paid to the a priori in logic, science and mathematics. The authors exhibit a wide variety of approaches, some remaining sceptical of the notion itself, some proposing that it receive a non-factualist treatment, and others proposing novel ways of explicating and defending it. The editors' Introduction provides a helpful route into the issues.
