Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Causation and Explanation, Philosophy of Science A–Z and Knowing the Structure of Nature and Mechanisms in Science: Metaphysics or Method?Thodoris Dimitrakos is Assistant Professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He has published widely on scientific change, naturalism, normativity and scientific realism.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. Constitutive Principles and Hypotheses in the Two Principia 3. Leibniz and Hume on Constitutive Principles 4. Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Necessity, Universality and Unrevisability 5. The Absolute Rejection I: Mill’s Radical Empiricism and Inductivism 6. The Emergence of Non-Euclidean Geometries 7. Conventions as a New Epistemic Category 8. Logical Positivism and the Emergence of the Relativized A Priori 9. The Absolute Rejection II: Quine versus Carnap 10. A Novel Functional Approach to A Priori. References Index

Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Causation and Explanation, Philosophy of Science A–Z and Knowing the Structure of Nature and Mechanisms in Science: Metaphysics or Method?Thodoris Dimitrakos is Assistant Professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He has published widely on scientific change, naturalism, normativity and scientific realism.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. Constitutive Principles and Hypotheses in the Two Principia 3. Leibniz and Hume on Constitutive Principles 4. Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Necessity, Universality and Unrevisability 5. The Absolute Rejection I: Mill’s Radical Empiricism and Inductivism 6. The Emergence of Non-Euclidean Geometries 7. Conventions as a New Epistemic Category 8. Logical Positivism and the Emergence of the Relativized A Priori 9. The Absolute Rejection II: Quine versus Carnap 10. A Novel Functional Approach to A Priori. References Index

Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Causation and Explanation, Philosophy of Science A–Z and Knowing the Structure of Nature and Mechanisms in Science: Metaphysics or Method?Thodoris Dimitrakos is Assistant Professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He has published widely on scientific change, naturalism, normativity and scientific realism.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. Constitutive Principles and Hypotheses in the Two Principia 3. Leibniz and Hume on Constitutive Principles 4. Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Necessity, Universality and Unrevisability 5. The Absolute Rejection I: Mill’s Radical Empiricism and Inductivism 6. The Emergence of Non-Euclidean Geometries 7. Conventions as a New Epistemic Category 8. Logical Positivism and the Emergence of the Relativized A Priori 9. The Absolute Rejection II: Quine versus Carnap 10. A Novel Functional Approach to A Priori. References Index