Courses:

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.