A Priori Justification by Albert Casullo

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The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systematic treatment of the primary epistemological issues associated with the controversy. By freeing the a priori from traditional assumptions about the nature of knowledge and justification, he offers a novel approach to resolving these issues which assigns a prominent role to empirical evidence. He concludes by arguing that traditional approaches to the a priori, which focus primarily on the concepts of necessity and analyticity, are misguided.

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From the introductory essay by editor Casullo (philosophy, U. of Nebraska): "The range of issues bearing on the is staggering, ranging from the semantics of proper names to the metaphysics of modality, from the relationship between the sciences and mathematics to propositional attitudes and their content." Here he presents 25 previously published essays from journals such as and , selected mainly for their relevance to the question of the existence of knowledge. A sampling of topics: causality, reliabilism, and mathematical knowledge; non-analytic conceptual knowledge; rational intuition<-->Bealer on its nature and epistemic status. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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