{"product_id":"9780812697414","title":"What Place for the A Priori?","description":"This book deals with questions about the nature of a priori knowledge and its relation to empirical knowledge.  Until the twentieth century, it was more or less taken for granted that there was such a thing as a priori knowledge, that is, knowledge whose source is in reason and reflection rather than sensory experience.  With a few notable exceptions, philosophers believed that mathematics, logic and philosophy were all a priori.  Although the seeds of doubt were planted earlier on, by the early twentieth century, philosophers were widely skeptical of the idea that there was any nontrivial existence of a priori knowledge. By the mid to late twentieth century, it became fashionable to doubt the existence of any kind of a priori knowledge at all.  Since many think that philosophy is an a priori discipline if it is any kind of discipline at all, the questions about a priori knowledge are fundamental to our understanding of philosophy itself.","brand":"Open Court Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118838825200,"sku":"9780812697414","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812697414_p0.jpg?v=1763744919","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812697414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}