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Basic belief and basic knowledge : papers in epistemology / [edited by] René van Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser, Ron Rood.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 4
- Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foundationalism (Theory of knowledge)--Congresses.
- Foundationalism (Theory of knowledge).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Basic belief and basic knowledge : general issues
- pt. 2. Areas of basic belief and basic knowledge.
- Notes:
- Papers grew out of a conference, held at the Dept. of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-937202-70-6
- 3-11-032751-1
- OCLC:
- 854569135
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