Introduction to the special issue “The roles of experience in a priori knowledge”

• Autores: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 192, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 2695-2699
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to the influential Kantian tradition, the distinction between the a priori and the a posteriori is drawn by looking at different roles experience plays or does not play in determining the epistemic status of justified belief. Kant himself introduces his distinction between the a priori and the a posteriori as a distinction between two kinds of judgments—that is, two kinds of essentially propositional cognitions—in the opening paragraph of the Critique of Pure Reason