A Priori
A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2011
- Category
- Epistemology, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773585515
- Publish Date
- Dec 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Edwin Mares seeks to make the standard topics and current debates within a priori knowledge, including necessity and certainty, rationalism, empiricism and analyticity, Quine's attack on the a priori, Kantianism, Aristotelianism, mathematical knowledge, moral knowledge, logical knowledge, and philosophical knowledge, accessible to students.
About the author
Edwin Mares is associate professor of philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His books include Realism and Anti-Realism.