A Priori Justification [Paperback]

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.

Introduction
1 The Contemporary Divide.
2 The Kantian Background.
3 Synopsis.
Part I: What is A Priori Knowledge?
1.The Leading Proposals.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Two Taxonomies.
1.3 Nonepistemic Analyses.
1.4 Nonepistemic Conditions.
1.5 Strength and Defeasibility Conditions.
1.6 Source Conditions.
1.7 Conclusion.
2.Two Conceptions of A Priori Justification.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Two Competing Demands.
2.3 General Epistemology.
2.4 The Supporting Intuitions.
2.5 The Case for (AP1).
2.6 Objections to (AP1).
2.7 A Third Conception of A Priori Justification.
2.8 Conclusion.
3.Fallible A Priori Justification.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Two Senses of Infallibility.
3.3 Three Senses of Fallible A Priori Justification.
3.4 P-fallibility and A Priori Justification.
3.5 Two Inconsistent Accounts.
3.6 Conclusion.
Part II: Is There A Priori Knowledge?
4.The Supporting Arguments.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Conceptual Arguments.
4.3 Criterial Arguments: Necessity.
4.4 Criterial Arguments: Irrefutability.
4.5 Criterial Arguments: Certainty.
4.6 Deficiency Arguments.
4.7 Coherentist Radical Empiricism.
4.8 Foundationalist Radical Empiricism.
4.9 Conclusion.
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