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11Causality, Reliabilism, and Mathematical KnowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (3): 557-584. 1992.
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57Testimony and A Priori KnowledgeEpisteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4 (3): 322-334. 2007.Tyler Burge offers a theory of testimony that allows for the possibility of both testimonial a priori warrant and testimonial a priori knowledge. I uncover a tension in his account of the relationship between the two, and locate its source in the analogy that Burge draws between testimonial warrant and preservative memory. I contend that this analogy should be rejected, and offer a revision of Burge's theory that eliminates the tension. I conclude by assessing the impact of the revised theory on…Read more
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227A Priori JustificationOxford University Press USA. 2003.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 th…Read more
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264Perceptual space is monadicPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (September): 131-134. 1989.
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31Analyticity, Apriority, ModalityIn Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language, Continuum International. pp. 228. 2012.
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632Intuition, Thought Experiments, and the A PrioriIn Essays on a Priori Knowledge and Justification, Oup Usa. pp. 233-250. 2014.My purpose in this paper is to examine the role of intuition in conceptual analysis and to assess whether that role can be parlayed into a plausible defense of a priori knowledge. The focus of my investigation is George Bealer’s attempt to provide such a defense. I argue that Bealer’s account of intuition and its evidential status faces three problems. I go on to examine the two primary arguments that Bealer offers against empiricism: the Starting Points Argument and the Argument from Epistemic …Read more
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24Experience and A Priori JustificationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 665-671. 2001.Laurence BonJour’s In Defense of Pure Reason is rich and challenging. It offers a tightly integrated attack on empiricism and defense of rationalism. The tight texture of argument makes it difficult to isolate and assess specific aspects of the book in a brief discussion. My goal is to examine the role of experience in BonJour’s conception of a priori justification.
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246The definition of a priori knowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (2): 220-224. 1977.
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3Conceivability and possibilityRatio (Misc.) 17 (1): 118-121. 1975.The purpose of this article is to defend Hume's claim that whatever is conceivable is possible from a criticism by William Kneale. Kneale argues that although a mathematician can conceive of the falsehood of the Goldbach conjecture, he does not conclude that it is not necessarily true. The author suggests that by taking into account Hume's distinction between intuitive and demonstrative knowledge, a revised version of his claim can be offered which is not open to Kneale's criticism.
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119Revisability, reliabilism, and a priori knowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (2): 187-213. 1988.
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287Annotated Bibliography on A Priori KnowledgeIn Essays on a Priori Knowledge and Justification, Oup Usa. pp. 329-339. 2014.A selective annotated bibliography of recent literature on a priori knowledge.
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792Articulating the A Priori-A Posteriori DistinctionIn Essays on a Priori Knowledge and Justification, Oup Usa. pp. 289-327. 2014.The distinction between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge has come under attack in the recent literature by Philip Kitcher, John Hawthorne, C. S. Jenkins, and Timothy Williamson. Evaluating the attacks requires answering two questions. First, have they hit their target? Second, are they compelling? My goal is to argue that the attacks fail because they miss their target. Since the attacks are directed at a particular concept or distinction, they must accurately locate the target conc…Read more
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