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

Czy potrzebna nam jest opozycja aprioryczne – aposterioryczne?
Do We Really Need an Opposition between A Priori and A Posteriori?

Author(s): Barbara Tuchańska
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: a priori knowledge; a priori justification; a priori insights; naturalism; rationalism; socio-historical conception of knowledge; the ideal of episteme

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 19/2011
  • Issue No: 4 (76)
  • Page Range: 119-138
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish