Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in EpistemologyRené Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser, Ron Rood Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response to this various alternatives to it have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune to the earlier criticisms. This volume contains 12 papers in which various aspects of this dialectic are covered. A number of papers continue the trend to defend foundationalism, and foundationalism's commitment to basic beliefs and basic knowledge, against various attacks. Others aim to show that one important objection against coherentism, viz. that the notion of 'coherence' is too vague to be useful, can be countered. |
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Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology René van Woudenberg,Sabine Roeser,Ron Rood No preview available - 2005 |
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abstract objects action action-oriented perceptual agent Alston Alvin Plantinga argue argument arithmetic axiom of parallels basic beliefs basic theistic belief basis of blind-trust belief forming Benacerraf Blind-Trust account bodily bootstrap confirms Cambridge claim cognitive faculties coherence coherentism concept consider defeater defeater-defeater definition depend Descartes epistemic status epistemically basic evidence evidentialism evidentialist example existence experience externalist follows foundationalism foundationalist foundherentism Frege Gauss geometry God’s hallucinogens immediate incorrigible inference intuitionism intuitionists intuitive knowledge involved justified beliefs Kant’s Leibniz liefs mathematical means mental non-basic beliefs non-Euclidean geometry notion one’s perceive perceptual belief perceptual model perceptually guided philosophical Philosophy of Mathematics principle priori problem properly basic propositions proprioception rational reason reflective reformed epistemology Reid relevant reliable religious belief Riemann S’s belief S’s noetic structure self-evident sense sensus divinitatis simply testimonial beliefs theorems theory of justification thesis tion true belief truth undefeated-defeater virtue virtue epistemology warrant