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252Knowledge and modalitySynthese 172 (3). 2010.Kripke claims that there are necessary a posteriori truths and contingent a priori truths. These claims challenge the traditional Kantian view that (K) All knowledge of necessary truths is a priori and all a priori knowledge is of necessary truths. Kripke’s claims continue to be resisted, which indicates that the Kantian view remains attractive. My goal is to identify the most plausible principles linking the epistemic and the modal. My strategy for identifying the principles is to investigate …Read more
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110Epistemic Overdetermination and A Priori JustificationPhilosophical Perspectives 19 (1): 41-58. 2005.Radical empiricism is the view that experience is the only source of knowledge. Hence, radical empiricism denies the existence of a priori knowledge. Its most famous proponents are John Stuart Mill and W. V. Quine. Although both reject a priori knowledge, they offer different empiricist accounts of the knowledge alleged by their opponents to be a priori. My primary concern in this paper is not with the cogency of their positive accounts. My focus is their arguments against a priori knowledge. My…Read more
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159The spatial structure of perceptual spacePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (4): 665-671. 1986.
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48Reply to my Critics: Anthony Brueckner and Robin JeshionIn Michael J. Shaffer & Michael L. Veber (eds.), What Place for the A Priori?, Open Court. pp. 111. 2011.
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61Conjunctive properties revisitedAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (3). 1984.This Article does not have an abstract
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67Phenomenal propertiesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (2): 165-169. 1982.This Article does not have an abstract
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25In Defense of Pure ReasonPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 103. 2000.This book is an important contribution to the contemporary epistemological literature. It is the only available book-length treatment of epistemological issues associated with the a priori. Moreover, it provides the most comprehensive articulation and defense of traditional rationalism. The book is tightly organized, crisply argued, and sets the standard against which competing accounts must be measured.
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109The contingent identity of particulars and universalsMind 93 (372): 527-541. 1984.The primary purpose of this paper is to argue that particulars in the actual world are nothing but complexes of universals. I begin by briefly presenting bertrand russell's version of this view and exposing its primary difficulty. I then examine the key assumption which leads russell to difficulty and show that it is mistaken. The rejection of this assumption forms the basis of an alternative version of the view which is articulated and defended.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |