{"product_id":"priori-principles-in-empirical-science-1","title":"Priori Principles in Empirical Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Stathis Psillos and Thodoris Dimitrakos explore the question: how is empirical, and in particular scientific, knowledge possible? Most philosophers have accepted that some restrictions must be placed on empirical knowledge in order for it to be possible. Yet considerable debate has revolved around the precise nature of such restrictions, above all how knowledge can be said to be \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book traces the development of the concept of the \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e in the philosophy of science, beginning with the Descartes-Newton controversy. The discussion then turns to Leibniz and Hume, Kant’s conception of synthetic \u003ci\u003ea priori \u003c\/i\u003eprinciples, and Mill’s radical empiricism, which sought to eliminate the \u003ci\u003ea priori \u003c\/i\u003ealtogether. 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 \u003ci\u003ea priori \u003c\/i\u003ewithin logical positivism, and the Quine-Carnap debate over analyticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on these historical and philosophical discussions, the authors develop and defend a novel functional conception of the \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e - captured by the idea that \"the \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e is as the \u003ci\u003ea priori \u003c\/i\u003edoes\" - according to which a priori principles are those that play a constitutive role in scientific theorising while remaining open to revision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging and wide-ranging philosophical investigation of the \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258113859928,"sku":"9781032370491","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/priori-principles-in-empirical-science-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}