Experiencing the a priori

Kant on the "A priori" Toward an Interpretation

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

Presupposition and the a priori

This paper argues for and explores the implications of the following epistemological principle for knowability a priori (with ‘KA’ abbreviating ‘it is knowable a priori that’). (AK) For all /, w such that / semantically presupposes w: if KA/; KAw: Well-known arguments for the contingent a priori and a priori knowledge of logical truth founder when the semantic presuppositions of the putative it...

Naturalism and the a Priori

In Coming to Our Senses (1996), I argue for and apply a naturalistic semantic methodology to defend an anti-holistic truth-referential view of meaning. The naturalism in question is an epistemological doctrine that I take from Quine: there is only one way of knowing, the empirical way that is the basis of science (whatever that way may be). So I reject “a priori knowledge.” I do not give a deta...

Arnold’s Diffusion: from the a priori unstable to the a priori stable case

We expose some selected topics concerning the instability of the action variables in a priori unstable Hamiltonian systems, and outline a new strategy that may allow to apply these methods to a priori stable systems. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 37J40, 37J50, 37C29, 37C50, 37J50.