Do We Really Need an Opposition between A Priori and A Posteriori?

• Authors: Barbara Tuchańska

Title variants

PL

Czy potrzebna nam jest opozycja aprioryczne – aposterioryczne?

EN

Do We Really Need an Opposition between A Priori and A Posteriori?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

I present modifications of the notion of the a priori knowledge (beliefs) or justification executed in the recent epistemological conceptions, and discuss difficulties raised in their empiricist criticisms. Next, I discuss a naturalist and a metaphysical extreme approaches to the a priori, and give arguments against the need for the acceptance of the a priori versus a posteriori opposition. My arguments refer to contemporary philosophical processes: the abandonment of the abstract concept of the cognizing subject, the rejection of the concept of language as a logical representational structure, and the demise of the ideal of episteme.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 119-138

Dates

published

2011-12-01

Contributors

author

Barbara Tuchańska