1st Edition
A Priori Principles in Empirical Science Constitutivity and Revisability
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
Biography
Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Causation and Explanation, Philosophy of Science A–Z, and Knowing the Structure of Nature and Mechanisms is Science: Metaphysics or Method?
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.
