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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]
Francis Bacon; Thomas Bayes; Pierre Bayle; George Berkeley; William Kingdon Clifford; René Descartes; John Dewey; James Frederick Ferrier; G.W.F. Hegel; Thomas Hobbes
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
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]
Cooperative naturalism is a version of naturalized epistemology which states that while there are evaluative questions to pursue, the empirical results from psychology concerning how individuals actually think and reason are essential and useful for making progress in these evaluative questions.
The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Critical Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence Bonjour, edited by John W. Bender, Kluwer, 1989. Metamind, Knowledge, and Coherence: Essays on the Philosophy of Keith Lehrer, edited by Johannes Brandl, Wolfgang Gombocz, and Christian Piller, Rodopi, 1991.
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 ...