In recent years many influential philosophers have argued that philosophy is an a priori science, yet few epistemology textbooks discuss a priori knowledge at any length, focusing instead on empirical knowledge and justification. Although a priori knowledge has moved to centre stage, the literature remains either too technical or too out-of-date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course.
Edwin Mares seeks to make the standard topics and current debates within a priori knowledge, including necessity and certainty, rationalism, empiricism and analyticity, Quine's attack on the a priori, Kantianism, Aristotelianism, mathematical knowledge, moral knowledge, logical knowledge, and philosophical knowledge, accessible to students.
Edwin Mares is professor of philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His books include Realism and Anti-Realism (with Stuart Brock) and Relevant Logic: a Philosophical Interpretaion.