Analyzing a priori knowledge |
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Authors: | Albert Casullo |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1010 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0321, USA |
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Abstract: | There are four approaches to analyzing the concept of a priori knowledge. The primary target of the reductive approach is the concept of a priori justification. The primary target of the nonreductive approach is the concept of a priori knowledge. There are two approaches to analyzing each primary target. A theory-neutral approach provides an analysis that does not presuppose any general theory of knowledge or justification. A theory-laden approach provides an analysis that does presuppose some general theory of knowledge or justification (call it the background theory). Those who embrace a theory-laden analysis incur a special burden: they must separate the features of their analysis that are constitutive of the a priori from those that are constitutive of the background theory. My goal is to illustrate how the failure to separate these features leads to erroneous conclusions about the nature of a priori knowledge. |
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Keywords: | A priori Knowledge Justification Warrant Indefeasible Nonexperiential Intuition Reliabilism Socio-historicism |
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