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The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Engelsk Paperback
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Engelsk Paperback

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How must our knowledge be systematically organized in order to justify our beliefs? There are two options—the solid securing of the ancient foundationalist pyramid or the risky adventure of the new coherentist raft. For the foundationalist like Descartes each piece of knowledge can be stacked to build a pyramid. Not so, argues Laurence BonJour. What looks like a pyramid is in fact a dead end, a blind alley. Better by far to choose the raft. Here BonJour sets out the most extensive antifoundationalist argument yet developed. The first part of the book offers a systematic exposition of foundationalist views and formulates a general argument to show that no variety of foundationalism provides an acceptable account of empirical justification. In the second part he explores a coherence theory of empirical knowledge and argues that a defensible theory must incorporate an adequate conception of observation. The book concludes with an account of the correspondence theory of empirical truth and an argument that systems of empirical belief which satisfy the coherentist standard of justification are also likely to be true.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780674843813
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0674843819
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 1988
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
149mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Harvard University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 1988
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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