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The A Priori in Philosophy This page intentionally left blank The A Priori in Philosophy EDITED BY Albert Casullo and Joshua C. Thurow 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #theseveralcontributors2013 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN 978–0–19–969533–1 PrintedinGreatBritainby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY For my grandchildren (A. C.) For my family—Marchell, Hannah, Kayleen, and Lola (J. C. T.) This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents ListofContributors ix Acknowledgements x Introduction JoshuaC.ThurowandAlbertCasullo 1 I: Intuitions, Experimental Philosophy, and the A Priori 1. PhilosophicalNaturalismandIntuitionalMethodology AlvinI.Goldman 11 2. ExperimentalPhilosophyandApriority JonathanJenkinsIchikawa 45 3. TheImplicitConceptionandIntuitionTheoryofthe APriori,withImplicationsforExperimentalPhilosophy JoshuaC.Thurow 67 4. TheProspectsforanExperimentalistRationalism,orWhyIt’sOkifthe APrioriIsOnly99.44PercentEmpiricallyPure JonathanM.Weinberg 92 II: The Nature and Scope of the A Priori 5. OntheArmchairJustificationofConceptuallyGrounded NecessaryTruths DavidHendersonandTerryHorgan 111 6. Concepts,Teleology,andRationalRevision ChristopherS.Hill 134 7. APrioriTestimonyRevisited Anna-SaraMalmgren 158 8. IntuitionsandFoundations:TheRelevanceofMooreandWittgenstein ErnestSosa 186 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS III: Skepticism and the A Priori 9. Skepticism,Reason,andReidianism JoelPust 205 10. APrioriBootstrapping RalphWedgwood 226 IV: Challenges to the A Priori 11. ArticulatingtheAPriori–APosterioriDistinction AlbertCasullo 249 12. NaturalisticChallengestotheAPriori C.S.I.Jenkins 274 13. HowDeepistheDistinctionbetweenAPrioriand APosterioriKnowledge? TimothyWilliamson 291 Index 313 List of Contributors ALBERTCASULLO—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln ALVIN I. GOLDMAN—Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, RutgersUniversity DAVID HENDERSON—Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the MoralSciences,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln CHRISTOPHERS.HILL—ProfessorofPhilosophy,BrownUniversity TERRYHORGAN—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofArizona JONATHAN JENKINS ICHIKAWA—Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia C.S.I.Jenkins—CanadaResearchChairandAssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,Universityof BritishColumbia,andChairinTheoreticalPhilosophyattheNorthernInstituteofPhilosophy, UniversityofAberdeen ANNA-SARAMALMGREN—AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,StanfordUniversity JOELPUST—AssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofDelaware ERNESTSOSA—BoardofGovernorsProfessorofPhilosophy,RutgersUniversity JOSHUAC.THUROW—AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofTexasatSanAntonio RALPHWEDGWOOD—ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia JONATHANM.WEINBERG—AssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofArizona TIMOTHYWILLIAMSON—WykehamProfessorofLogic,UniversityofOxford
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