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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.
Next to these more general issues related to foundationalism, a number of papers deal with much more specific topics. First, various papers deal with mathematical knowledge, and with the problems attached to the idea of basic mathematical knowledge–problems that derive in part from Benacerraf’s work. Second, various papers deal with Plantinga’s notion of ‘properly basic belief’, criticizing it and at the same time proposing improvements on it. Finally there are papers that deal with the problems of basicality in moral knowledge, testimony, and proprioperception.
Content:
Igor Douven, “Basic Beliefs, Coherence, and Bootstrap Confirmation”.
René van Woudenberg, “Intuitive Knowledge Reconsidered”
Steven D. Hales, “A Trilemma for Philosophical Knowledge”
Bence Nanay, “Basic Beliefs are not Beliefs at all? The Epistemic Role of Nonconceptual Content”
Bob Hale, “Mathematical Knowledge: A Defence of Modest and Sober Platonism”
Ron Rood, “The role and status of axioms in mathematics “
Christian B. Miller (University of Notre Dame), “Defeaters and the Basicality of Theistic Belief”
Duncan Pritchard, “Reforming Reformed Epistemology”
Christian Weidemann, “Why Basic Theistic Belief is Probably not Warranted, Even if it is True”
Sabine Roeser, “Emotions and the Formation of Basic Moral Beliefs“
David Eng, “Basic Beliefs, Testimony, and Blind Trust”
Andy Hamilton, “Proprioception as Basic Knowledge of the Body.
Philosophical Research Vol. 4
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