Before the 20th century the concept of a priori knowledge knowledge basedin reason and reflection rather than experience found nearly universalacceptance. By ... » 

Before the 20th century the concept of a priori knowledge knowledge basedin reason and reflection rather than experience found nearly universalacceptance. By the early 20th century however philosophers were skeptical ofthe idea that there was any nontrivial existence of a priori knowledge. Fiftyyears later it was fashionable to doubt it existed at all. The articles inthis book tackle a priori knowledge from every angle does it exist? whatmight it be like? what is its relation to empirical knowledge? and othertopics of perennial interest. «