WE DON’T LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD BY EXAMINING CONCEPTS: A RESPONSE TO CARRIE JENKINS In Current Controversies in Epistemology, ed
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Strongly influenced by a Quinean naturalism, I have presented two arguments against the a priori: first, I claim to undermine the motivation for the a priori; second, I claim to demonstrate the obscurity of the a priori (1996, 1998, 2002, 2005a,b, 2011, 2012). 1 Carrie Jenkins (this volume) is critical of both arguments. Drawing to some extent on her interesting book Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (2008), she claims to explain a priori knowledge as knowledge gained by the examination of our concepts. I think that this explanation fails
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