Albert Casullo - A Priori Justification

Casullo, Albert Professor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A Priori Justification

Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511505-5
doi:10.1093/0195115058.001.0001

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For Becky
O sogno d'or
poter amar cos!
Giacomo Puccini
La Rondine, Act One

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Many colleagues, friends, and students provided helpful comments and sound advice on various aspects of this project. I am deeply grateful to all of them, more so than I can adequately express. Panayot Butchvarov, Heimir Geirsson, and David Hunter read the entire manuscript and gave me many valuable suggestions that greatly improved the final version. I have benefited enormously from the comments of Tony Anderson, George Bealer, Larry BonJour, David Chalmers, Alvin Goldman, Robin Jeshion, Philip Kitcher, Kirk Ludwig, Penelope Maddy, Paul Moser, Alvin Plantinga, Ernie Sosa, and Kadri Vihvelin. My colleagues and students at the University of NebraskaLincoln, including Robert Audi, Edward Becker, Bryan Belknap, Tim Black, Nancy Brahm, Harry Ide, Joe Mendola, Thad Metz, Peter Murphy, David Pitt, Guy Rohrbaugh, and Mark van Roojen, provided fruitful discussions on countless occasions. Tim Black proofread the manuscript and helped prepare the index. Peter Ohlin and Cynthia Read, of Oxford University Press, were supportive through all phases of the project and patient when it required more time than originally anticipated.

I am particularly indebted to three individuals who contributed in other ways: Panayot Butchvarov, who for thirty years has been a constant source of inspiration, insight, constructive criticism and sound judgment; Larry Hardin, who recognized and nourished my interest in philosophy when I was an undergraduate student at Syracuse University; and Philip Kitcher, whose support and encouragement during the early stages of this project were instrumental in bringing it to fruition.

For financial support, which made the timely completion of this project possible, I thank the University of NebraskaLincoln. The Research Council

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provided a research fellowship in the summer of 1997, and the College of Arts and Sciences and the Philosophy Department supported a reduction in my teaching load for the fall of 2000.

This book is dedicated to my wife, Becky, with love, as a small token of gratitude for all that she has given to me.

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I wish to thank the original publishers for granting permission to use portions of some of my previously published articles:

Necessity, Certainty, and the A Priori, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (1988): 4366.

Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1988): 187213.

Causality, Reliabilism, and Mathematical Knowledge, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 557584.

Analyticity and the A Priori, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supp. vol. 18 (1993): 113150.

The Coherence of Empiricism, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2000): 3148.

Modal Epistemology: Fortune or Virtue? Southern Journal of Philosophy 38, supp. (2000): 1725.

Experience and A Priori Justification, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2001): 665671.

A Priori Knowledge, in The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, ed. Paul Moser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

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