What kind of knowledge can we get just by thinking? Two of the world's leading philosophers develop radically different positions, in alternating chapters, on the status and nature of a priori knowledge. The reader is able to follow up-close how a philosophical debate evolves.
What kind of knowledge can we get just by thinking? Two of the world's leading philosophers develop radically different positions, in alternating chapters, on the status and nature of a priori knowledge. The reader is able to follow up-close how a philosophical debate evolves.
Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, and has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published Identity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness (Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press, 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Modal Logic as Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), Tetralogue: I'm Right,You're Wrong (OUP, 2015), and many articles on logic and philosophy. Paul A. Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. He has also taught at Michigan, Princeton, Birmingham and the Ecole Normale Superieure. His research interests are primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, although he has written on a wide range of topics, including: color, rule-following, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of genocide. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge (2006) and Content and Justification (2008). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Analyticity Reconsidered * 2: Blind Reasoning * 3: Understanding and Inference * 4: Williamson on the A Priori and the Analytic * 5: Reply to Boghossian on the A Priori and the Analytic * 6: Inferentialism and the Epistemology of Logic: Reflections on Casalegno and Williamson * 7: Boghossian and Casalegno on Understanding and Inference * 8: How Deep is the Distinction Between A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge? * 9: Paul Boghossian: Do We Have Reason to Doubt the Importance of the Distinction Between A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge? * 10: Reply to Boghossian on the Distinction between the A Priori and the A Posteriori * 11: Williamson on the Distinction Between the A Priori and the A Posteriori Once Again * 12: Knowing by Imagining * 13: Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 14: Reply to Boghossian on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 15: Reply to Williamson on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 16: Boghossian on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori Once Again * 17: Closing Reflections (Timothy Williamson) * 18: Closing Reflections (Paul Boghossian)
* 1: Analyticity Reconsidered * 2: Blind Reasoning * 3: Understanding and Inference * 4: Williamson on the A Priori and the Analytic * 5: Reply to Boghossian on the A Priori and the Analytic * 6: Inferentialism and the Epistemology of Logic: Reflections on Casalegno and Williamson * 7: Boghossian and Casalegno on Understanding and Inference * 8: How Deep is the Distinction Between A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge? * 9: Paul Boghossian: Do We Have Reason to Doubt the Importance of the Distinction Between A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge? * 10: Reply to Boghossian on the Distinction between the A Priori and the A Posteriori * 11: Williamson on the Distinction Between the A Priori and the A Posteriori Once Again * 12: Knowing by Imagining * 13: Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 14: Reply to Boghossian on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 15: Reply to Williamson on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori * 16: Boghossian on Intuition, Understanding and the A Priori Once Again * 17: Closing Reflections (Timothy Williamson) * 18: Closing Reflections (Paul Boghossian)
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