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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.identifier.other PHIL 2004 E73
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16164
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.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
dc.format.pages vii, 35 leaves;


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