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A priori

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DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-P001-1
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References and further reading

  • Carruthers, P. (1992) Human Knowledge and Human Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    (An accessible treatment of issues about the sources of knowledge, including a priori knowledge.)

  • Coffa, J.A. (1991) The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (A history of philosophical reaction to Kant’s doctrine of the a priori.)

  • Kant, I. (1781/1787) Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N. Kemp Smith, London: Macmillan, 1963.

    (Classic statement of the distinctions a priori–a posteriori and analytic–synthetic; see especially the introduction, §§I–IV.)

  • Kripke, S.A. (1980) Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    (Referred to in §1 above. Challenges the view that only necessarily true propositions are knowable a priori.)

  • Moser, P.K. (1987) A Priori Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    (Contains ten of the most important recent essays on a priori knowledge and a bibliography of recent work on the topic. The selections in this book treat the positions identified in §3 above.)

  • Moser, P.K. and Vander Nat, A. (1987) Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 1995.

    (A wide range of classical and contemporary selections bearing on the conditions for a priori and a posteriori knowledge.)

  • Pap, A. (1958) Semantics and Necessary Truth, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    (A detailed survey and assessment of many prominent seventeenth through twentieth century views on necessity, analyticity and the a priori, including the views of Leibniz, Kant, Locke and Hume.)

  • Quine, W.V. (1953) From a Logical Point of View, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2nd edn, 1961.

    (Includes ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, an influential challenge to the analytic–synthetic distinction.)

  • Shanker, S.G. (1987) Wittgenstein and the Turning-Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics, London: Croom Helm.

    (Expounds Wittgenstein’s views on mathematical truth and the a priori.)

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