Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology

✍ Scribed by René van Woudenberg (editor); Sabine Roeser (editor); Ron Rood (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Series: Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research; 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge General Issues
RENÉ VAN WOUDENBERG Intuitive Knowledge Reconsidered
BENCE NANAY Foundationalism Strikes Back? In Search of Epistemically Basic Mental States
IGOR DOUVEN Basic Beliefs, Coherence, and Bootstrap Confirmation
Part II Areas of Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge
RON ROOD On the status of axioms in mathematics
BOB HALE Mathematical Knowledge. A Defence of Modest and Sober Platonism
STEVEN D. HALES A Trilemma for Philosophical Knowledge
CHRISTIAN B. MILLER 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 Defending Moral Intuition
DAVID ENG Basic Beliefs, Testimony, and Blind-Trust
ANDY HAMILTON Proprioception as Basic Knowledge of the Body
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