Priori

In recent years many influential philosophers have advocated that philosophy is an a priori science. Yet very few epistemology textbooks discuss a priori knowledge at any length focusing instead on empirical knowledge and empirical justification. As a priori knowledge has moved centre stage the literature remains either too technical or too out of date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course. Edwin Mares book aims to rectify this. This book seeks to make accessible to students the standard topics and current debates within a priori knowledge including necessity and certainty rationalism empiricism and analyticity Quine's attack on the a priori Kantianism Aristotelianism mathematical knowledge moral knowledge logical knowledge and philosophical knowledge.