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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 24.805 (Spring 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Topics in Theory of Knowledge: A Priori Knowledge 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Linguistics and Philosophy 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Sally Haslanger 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 24.805 Topics in Theory of Knowledge: A Priori Knowledge



    Spring 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive list of readings.


    Course Description


    The seminar will explore the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. We'll consider some notable attempts to account for a priori knowledge in the history of philosophy (e.g., by Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Kant), some influential critiques of the notion; we will end by considering some contemporary approaches to the a priori.
     

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