A Priori Justification

The past twenty five years has seen a resurgence of interest in Priori Knowledge. The impetus has come from many different directions. The field of epistemology has also changed rapidly during this period. Gettier's challenge to the traditional justified true belief analysis of knowledge produced a range of competing conceptions of knowledge. Booknews From the introductory essay by editor Casullo (philosophy, U. of Nebraska): The range of issues bearing on the is staggering, ranging from the semantics of proper names to the metaphysics of modality, from the relationship between the sciences and mathematics to propositional attitudes and their content. Here he presents 25 previously published essays from journals such as and , selected mainly for their relevance to the question of the existence of knowledge. A sampling of topics: causality, reliabilism, and mathematical knowledge; non-analytic conceptual knowledge; rational intuitionBealer on its nature and epistemic status. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)