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The book traces the development of the concept of the a priori in the philosophy of science, beginning with the Descartes-Newton controversy. The discussion then turns to Leibniz and Hume, Kant's conception of synthetic a priori principles, and Mill's radical empiricism, which sought to eliminate the a priori altogether. The book also examines later transformations of the debate, including the emergence of non-Euclidean geometries and their challenge to the Kantian view, Poincaré's conventionalism, the development of the relativised a priori within logical positivism, and the Quine-Carnap debate over analyticity.
Building on these historical and philosophical discussions, the authors develop and defend a novel functional conception of the a priori - captured by the idea that "the a priori is as the a priori does"-according to which a priori principles are those that play a constitutive role in scientific theorising while remaining open to revision.
An engaging and wide-ranging philosophical investigation of the a priori, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of the philosophy of science.
The book traces the development of the concept of the a priori in the philosophy of science, beginning with the Descartes-Newton controversy. The discussion then turns to Leibniz and Hume, Kant's conception of synthetic a priori principles, and Mill's radical empiricism, which sought to eliminate the a priori altogether. The book also examines later transformations of the debate, including the emergence of non-Euclidean geometries and their challenge to the Kantian view, Poincaré's conventionalism, the development of the relativised a priori within logical positivism, and the Quine-Carnap debate over analyticity.
Building on these historical and philosophical discussions, the authors develop and defend a novel functional conception of the a priori - captured by the idea that "the a priori is as the a priori does"-according to which a priori principles are those that play a constitutive role in scientific theorising while remaining open to revision.
An engaging and wide-ranging philosophical investigation of the a priori, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of the philosophy of science.
Thodoris Dimitrakos is Assistant Professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He has published widely on scientific change, naturalism, normativity and scientific realism.
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Constitutive Principles and Hypotheses in the Two Principia 3. Leibniz and Hume on Constitutive Principles 4. Kant's Copernican Revolution: Necessity, Universality and Unrevisability 5. The Absolute Rejection I: Mill's Radical Empiricism and Inductivism 6. The Emergence of Non-Euclidean Geometries 7. Conventions as a New Epistemic Category 8. Logical Positivism and the Emergence of the Relativized A Priori 9. The Absolute Rejection II: Quine versus Carnap 10. A Novel Functional Approach to A Priori. References Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781032370408 |
| ISBN-10: | 1032370408 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Psillos, Stathis
Dimitrakos, Thodoris |
| Auflage: | 1. Auflage |
| Hersteller: | Routledge |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 13 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Stathis Psillos (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.08.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,365 kg |
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