The A Priori in Philosophy

326 Pages·2013·1.527 MB·English

by  Albert Casullo, Joshua C. Thurow

The A Priori in Philosophy
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Table of Contents
ListofContributors ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction
JoshuaC.ThurowandAlbertCasullo 1
I: Intuitions, Experimental Philosophy,
and the A Priori
1. PhilosophicalNaturalismandIntuitionalMethodology
AlvinI.Goldman 11
2. ExperimentalPhilosophyandApriority
JonathanJenkinsIchikawa 45
3. TheImplicitConceptionandIntuitionTheoryofthe
APriori,withImplicationsforExperimentalPhilosophy
JoshuaC.Thurow 67
4. TheProspectsforanExperimentalistRationalism,orWhyIt’sOkifthe
APrioriIsOnly99.44PercentEmpiricallyPure
JonathanM.Weinberg 92
II: The Nature and Scope of the A Priori
5. OntheArmchairJustificationofConceptuallyGrounded
NecessaryTruths
DavidHendersonandTerryHorgan 111
6. Concepts,Teleology,andRationalRevision
ChristopherS.Hill 134
7. APrioriTestimonyRevisited
Anna-SaraMalmgren 158
8. IntuitionsandFoundations:TheRelevanceofMooreandWittgenstein
ErnestSosa 186
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III: Skepticism and the A Priori
9. Skepticism,Reason,andReidianism
JoelPust 205
10. APrioriBootstrapping
RalphWedgwood 226
IV: Challenges to the A Priori
11. ArticulatingtheAPriori–APosterioriDistinction
AlbertCasullo 249
12. NaturalisticChallengestotheAPriori
C.S.I.Jenkins 274
13. HowDeepistheDistinctionbetweenAPrioriand
APosterioriKnowledge?
TimothyWilliamson 291
Index 313
List of Contributors
ALBERTCASULLO—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln
ALVIN I. GOLDMAN—Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science,
RutgersUniversity
DAVID HENDERSON—Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the
MoralSciences,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln
CHRISTOPHERS.HILL—ProfessorofPhilosophy,BrownUniversity
TERRYHORGAN—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofArizona
JONATHAN JENKINS ICHIKAWA—Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of British
Columbia
C.S.I.Jenkins—CanadaResearchChairandAssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,Universityof
BritishColumbia,andChairinTheoreticalPhilosophyattheNorthernInstituteofPhilosophy,
UniversityofAberdeen
ANNA-SARAMALMGREN—AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,StanfordUniversity
JOELPUST—AssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofDelaware
ERNESTSOSA—BoardofGovernorsProfessorofPhilosophy,RutgersUniversity
JOSHUAC.THUROW—AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofTexasatSanAntonio
RALPHWEDGWOOD—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia
JONATHANM.WEINBERG—AssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofArizona
TIMOTHYWILLIAMSON—WykehamProfessorofLogic,UniversityofOxford