A Priori Justification [Hardcover]

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.

Part I: What is A Priori Knowledge?
1. The Leading Proposals
2. Two Conceptions of a Priori Justification
3. Fallible a Priori Justification
Part II: Is There a Priori Knowledge?
4. The Supporting Arguments
5. The Opposing Arguments
6. Toward Resolution
7. A Priori Knowledge and Necessary Truth
8. A Priori Knowledge and Analytic Truth

I have little doubt that the book will set the standard for discussions of the a priori within externalist epistemology for decades to come. --International Philosophical Quarterly

I recommend careful study of Casullo's book to anyone interested in the epistemology of the a priori. --Mind

This book really is a paradigm example of clear analytical philosophy. Page by page one is struck by the precision of the language, the way in which each subtlety or nuance in our rather hazy concepts in this respect is drawn out for further examination and slotted back again into its proper place in the conceptual architecture. ...an excellent book, on that will, I believe, set the benchmark for treatments ofa priorijustification for years to come. --The Philosophical Quarterly

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