Woudenberg / Roeser / Rood Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge

Papers in Epistemology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032751-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical ResearchISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woudenberg, René

Woudenberg, René van

Roeser, Sabine

Rood, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction;7
3;Part I Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge General Issues;13
3.1;RENÉ VAN WOUDENBERG Intuitive Knowledge Reconsidered;15
3.2;BENCE NANAY Foundationalism Strikes Back? In Search of Epistemically Basic Mental States;41
3.3;IGOR DOUVEN Basic Beliefs, Coherence, and Bootstrap Confirmation;57
4;Part II Areas of Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge;77
4.1;RON ROOD On the status of axioms in mathematics;79
4.2;BOB HALE Mathematical Knowledge. A Defence of Modest and Sober Platonism;107
4.3;STEVEN D. HALES A Trilemma for Philosophical Knowledge;131
4.4;CHRISTIAN B. MILLER Defeaters and the Basicality of Theistic Belief;147
4.5;DUNCAN PRITCHARD Reforming Reformed Epistemology*;177
4.6;CHRISTIAN WEIDEMANN Why basic theistic belief is probably not warranted, even if it is true;211
4.7;SABINE ROESER Defending Moral Intuition;231
4.8;DAVID ENG Basic Beliefs, Testimony, and Blind-Trust;251
4.9;ANDY HAMILTON Proprioception as Basic Knowledge of the Body;269
5;About the Authors;293