Constitutive a priori
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Philosophy. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Irzık, Gürol. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Machamer, Peter K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Erdur, Melis. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T11:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T11:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Recently there has been a renewed interest in the issue of a priority. Many philosophers have proposed accounts that attempt to establish the existence of a priori propositions while avoiding the difficulties of the former accounts. One of these philosophers is Michael Friedman, who has put forward the account of constitutive a priori. Friedman aims both to characterize constitutiveness with respect to a scientific framework and thereby to complement Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions, and to establish a sense of a priority that the former gives rise to and thereby to challenge Quinean epistemological holism. In my thesis, I provide a critical discussion of Friedman's own attempt to characterize constitutiveness with respect to a scientific framework. I argue that, in contrast to what Friedman claims, constitutiveness does not give rise to an epistemological difference that conflicts with Quinean epistemological holism. I rather suggest that the peculiarity of the putatively constitutive propositions can rather be accounted for by appealing to the notion of functional a priority that is proposed by Arthur Pap. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | vii, 35 leaves; | |
| dc.identifier.other | PHIL 2004 E73 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16164 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004. | |
| dc.relation | Includes appendices. | |
| dc.relation | Includes appendices. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | A priori. | |
| dc.title | Constitutive a priori |
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