The question of the a priori—can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?—is a core issue running th

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over

This book deals with questions about the nature of a priori knowledge and its relation to empirical knowledge. Until the twentieth century, it was more or less

The most influential rationalist model of scientific knowledge is arguably the one formulated recently by Michael Friedman. The central epistemic claim of the m

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant famously criticizes traditional metaphysics and its proofs of immortality, free will and God's existence. What is often ove