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BonJour specializes in epistemology, Kant, and British empiricism, but is best known for his contributions to epistemology.Initially defending coherentism in his anti-foundationalist critique The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (1985), BonJour subsequently moved to defend Cartesian foundationalism in later work such as 1998's In Defense of Pure Reason.
Warrant: The Current Debate is the first in a trilogy of books written by the philosopher Alvin Plantinga on epistemology.Plantinga introduces, analyzes, and criticizes 20th-century developments in analytic epistemology, particularly the works of Roderick Chisholm, Laurence BonJour, William Alston, Alvin Goldman, and others. [1]
William Alston; G. E. M. Anscombe; Robert Audi; A. J. Ayer; Gregory Bateson; Harry Binswanger; Laurence Bonjour; Mario Bunge; Jonathan Dancy; Gilles Deleuze; Keith DeRose
In contemporary philosophy, epistemologists who have significantly contributed to epistemic coherentism include: A. C. Ewing, Brand Blanshard, C. I. Lewis, Nicholas Rescher, Laurence BonJour, Keith Lehrer, and Paul Thagard. [2] Otto Neurath is also sometimes thought to be an epistemic coherentist. [15]
Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-28109-6. BonJour, Laurence (1985). The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67484-381-3. Coelho, Ivo (2010). "Foundationalism". In Puthenpurackal, Johnson J. (ed.). ACPI Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Asian Trading ...
Laurence Bonjour, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, 1985; John Hardwig, "Epistemic Dependence", 1985; Alvin Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition, 1986; Stephen Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation, 1990; Susan Haack, Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology, 1993/2009
Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced as a theory both of justification and of knowledge. Process reliabilism has been used as an argument against philosophical skepticism, such as the brain in a vat thought experiment. [1] Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism. [1]
Laurence BonJour (2003) asserts that acquaintance is a "built-in" awareness, that does not involve cognitive processes, and that it justifies belief. He argues that an adequate defense of acquaintance must explain the process by which acquaintance builds and maintains its cache of impressions into which new inputs of matching impressions can be ...