PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Long Term Ecological Research Network, Temporality, Science Studies
15 Nov 2016
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Metaphysics doesn"t appear to discover any truths. Science appears to devour human freedom: you are conditioned to do things because of brain states and environment. Science is ignorant of the conditions for its own possibility: the copernican revolution of philosophy. > hume woke me up from my dogmatic slumber : the possibility of science: how could science which is supposedly empiricist know necessity which is not empirical, beyond rationalism and empiricism. In time (temporal priority) all knowledge is a posteriori. in terms of logical priority, some knowledge is a priori. B: a priori knowledge: what our experience presupposes is order. We already receive an organized order of experiences, and we lter the rest of it . Your mind tells you everything you sense has cause: synthetic a prioris: a is b (analytic judgement: a is a, most synthetic judgements are a posteriori. All bodies have mass: but some synthetic judgements are a priori.
