PROBLEM ZNANJA A PRIORI U SPORU IZMEĐU EMPIRIZMA I RACIONALIZMA

doctoral thesis

• Title (english): THE PROBLEM OF THE A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE IN THE DISPUTE BETWEEN EMPIRICISM AND RATIONALISM
• Author: Ana Butković
• Mentor: Zvonimir Čuljak (mentor)
• Committee member: Davor Pećnjak (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Tomislav Janović (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Snježana Prijić - Samaržija (član povjerenstva); MBZ: 33333
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Croatian Studies; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2014-11-21, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philosophy
• Universal decimal classification (UDC): 14 - Philosophical systems and points of view

Abstract

U radu branim tezu da racionalnoj intuiciji kao izvoru opravdanja a priori treba dati važno mjesto unutar epistemologije i filozofije općenito, ali da one unutar okvira racionalističkih i empirističkih teorija nisu adekvatno objašnjene. Stoga veći dio rada posvećujem izlaganju empirističkih i racionalističkih teorija te iznosim glavne probleme s kojima se te teorije suočavaju. Empirističke teorije, odričući intuicijama status izvora opravdanja a priori gube na plauzibilnosti svojih objašnjenja na koji način određene propozicije znamo neovisno o iskustvu, bilo da se radi o umjerenoj ili radikalnoj verziji empirizma. Racionalističke teorije, s druge strane, koristeći se primarno apriornim metodama „u naslonjaču“ ne uspijevaju na adekvatan način objasniti što su intuicije, kako one funkcioniraju, te odgovoriti na pitanje zašto bismo ih smatrali izvorom znanja a priori, odnosno onima koji nas vode istinitim vjerovanjima. Dakle, najveći problem u suvremenoj epistemologiji je činjenica da opravdajni status samih intuicija kao izvora opravdanja a priori i metode na koju se filozofi u svojoj argumentaciji pozivaju, nikada nije u dovoljnoj mjeri razjašnjen.

Abstract (english)

In my dissertation I defend the thesis that rational intuition, as a source of a priori justification, should be given an important place within the epistemology and philosophy in general, and that they have not been adequately explained within the framework of rationalists’ and empiricists’ theories. Consequently, most of the work I dedicate to the presentation of their theories and emphasizing the main problems they are dealing with. Empiricists’ theories, whether they are moderate or radical version of empiricism in question, by renouncing intuitions their status of the source of a priori justification, lose plausibility of their explanations of how certain propositions are known independently of experience. Rationalists’ theories, on the other hand, by using primarily a priori methods of “armchair thinking”, fail to adequately explain what intuitions are, how they function, and to answer the question why we should consider them as a source of a priori knowledge, that is, why we should consider them as those that are truth conducive. So, the main problem in modern epistemology is the fact that evidential (justificational) status of intuitions, as a source of a priori justification, and method to which the philosophers in their argumentation appeal, is never fully explained.

• Keywords: epistemologija
• Keywords (english): epistemology
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:111:827227
• Study programme: Title: Postgraduate Doctoral Programme in Philosophy; Study programme type: university; Study level: postgraduate; Academic / professional title: doktor/doktorica znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, polje filozofija (doktor/doktorica znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, polje filozofija)
• Type of resource: Text
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• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2019-05-06 13:15:19