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...Jennifer Nagel Albert Casullo, A Priori Justification . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 249 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Christopher Peacocke, The Realm of Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 284 pp. At any given...

... as follows. Modal rationalists claim that for all nonphenomenal macro properties, the appropriate supervenience conditional is both necessary and a priori. Hence, type-B materialists must engage in special pleading when they claim that the relevant supervenience conditional for phenomenal properties...

.... This allows one to set forth an assignment of truth-conditions to arithmetical sentences whereby nothing is required of the world in order for the truth-conditions of a truth of pure arithmetic to be satisfied. The essay then argues that such an assignment can be used to account for the a priori knowability...

... argument is by no means intended to turn clearly empirical properties of the force of universal gravitation into a priori demonstrative truths” (531). Kant argues in the Metaphysical Foundations that we can know a priori that every piece of matter exerts an immediate attractive force acting at a distance...

.... Chalmers and Frank Jackson 1. Introduction Is conceptual analysis required for reductive explanation? If there is no a priori entailment from microphysical truths to phenomenal truths, does reductive explanation of the phenomenal fail? We say yes (Chalmers 1996; Jackson 1994, 1998). Ned...

... for those with interests in contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. On reflection, however, it is not clear that the disjunction ‘ C 1 exists or C 2 exists or…’ is entailed a priori by ‘there is caloric fluid’. To be sure, since by stipulation the C...

.... Written by a non- specialist, the book succeeds in conveying a lively appreciation of the impor- tance of philosophy of mathematics to philosophy generally There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the a priori, and Realistic Rationalism is no- table as well in contributing...

...- mediately, if defeasibly, justified on the basis of rational insight. (However, such beliefs, though defeasible, are empirically indefeasible-they can only be defeated by the deliveries of reason, not experience.) Not only is Katz a fallibilist about a priori justification but he also relaxes...

... or procedure.1 According to Peacocke, an entitlement is a priori if it derives entirely from “grasping” certain concepts, where grasping a concept involves under- standing the “constitutive” truth conditions of the concept. An entitlement is empirical if it also depends on experiential evidence...

... belief or procedure.1 According to Peacocke, an entitlement is a priori if it derives entirely from “grasping” certain concepts, where grasping a concept involves under- standing the “constitutive” truth conditions of the concept. An entitlement is empirical if it also depends...

...” to a given belief or procedure.1 According to Peacocke, an entitlement is a priori if it derives entirely from “grasping” certain concepts, where grasping a concept involves under- standing the “constitutive” truth conditions of the concept. An entitlement is empirical if it also depends...

... to be “entitled” to a given belief or procedure.1 According to Peacocke, an entitlement is a priori if it derives entirely from “grasping” certain concepts, where grasping a concept involves under- standing the “constitutive” truth conditions of the concept. An entitlement is empirical if it also...

... to be “entitled” to a given belief or procedure.1 According to Peacocke, an entitlement is a priori if it derives entirely from “grasping” certain concepts, where grasping a concept involves under- standing the “constitutive” truth conditions of the concept. An entitlement is empirical if it also...

... available book-length treatment of epistemo- logical 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...

... make sense of it. A number of scholars writing in English have taken up the challenge in full-length studies in the last few years. One of them is Jeffrey Edwards.2 The focus of Edwards’s book is Kant’s repeated attempt in the OP to prove a priori that an etherial matter must everywhere fill...

... but of the grasping. The possibility of freedom cannot be grasped because one cannot grasp any first beginning For our understanding cognizes existence through experience, but reason comprehends it when it cognizes it a priori, that is through groundsNowfirstbegin...

... The Critique of Pure Reason aims to explain the possibility of synthetic a priori judgment. Kant’s explanation of this possibility involves certain claims about the structure of the mind. This much is straightforward. As too is the general shape of his explanation. It rests on the fact that there are two...

... of the particles composing some subject and Q the phenomenal property instan- tiated by the subject. This conditional must be necessary or it follows immedi- ately that monism is false. So is this necessary conditional a priori or not? 126 BOOK REVIEWS...

... be necessary or it follows immedi- ately that monism is false. So is this necessary conditional a priori or not? 126 BOOK REVIEWS If not, then it looks like we have an example of conceivability without possibility of a sort that would...