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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]
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
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]
Metaepistemology is the branch of epistemology and metaphilosophy that studies the underlying assumptions made in debates in epistemology, including those concerning the existence and authority of epistemic facts and reasons, the nature and aim of epistemology, and the methodology of epistemology.
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Virtue epistemology replaces formulaic expressions for apprehending knowledge, such as "S knows that p", by amending these formulas with virtue theory applied to intellect, where virtue then becomes the fulcrum for assessing [clarification needed] potential candidates of "knowledge". This amendation raises problems of its own, however.