This paper aims to show what makes coherentism attractive in comparison to its main competitor, foundationalism. It also aims to show that constraint satisfaction is not the most attractive way to give content to the notion of coherence. In order to achieve these purposes, the paper distinguishes between epistemic, constructive and integrated coherentism. Epistemic coherentism treats coherence ...

In their response to our article (Keestra and Cowley, 2009), Hacker and Bennett charge us with failing to understand the project of their book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (PFN; Bennett and Hacker, 2003) and do this by discussing foundationalism, linguistic conservatism and the passivity of perception. In this rebuttal we explore disagreements that explain the alleged errors. First...

Within the debate between medical and health geographers there are often calls for methodological and philosophical conciliation. The purpose of this paper is to detail some of the epistemological difficulties in ever achieving that aim. We do so by offering a foundational scientific analysis of home death in Washington State, and then turning to a postmedical deconstruction of that scholarship...

Reviewed by: Appearance and Explanation: Phenomenal Explanationism in Epistemology by Kevin McCain Luca Moretti Caleb Estep McCAIN, Moretti. Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. iv + 195 pp. Cloth, $70.00 Since its beginning, phenomenal conservatism (PC) has grown rapidly popularity as a theory of epistemic justification. In Explanation, develop out PC new justification that the...

One of the advantages of classical foundationalism was that it was thought to provide a refutation of skeptical worries, which raise the specter that our beliefs might be extensively mistaken. The most extreme versions of these worries are expressed in familiar thought experiments such as the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis, which imagines a world in which, unbeknownst to you, your brain is in a vat ...

Contra critical rationalism, the response begins by referring to “the variety of internalist and externalist versions foundationalism” (Liberty, December 2002). But it makes no attempt explain or defend any them. Hence, further criticism is due here. The then argues that, “The rationalist method seems suggest that Lester’s extreme compatibility thesis probably false” because—quoting Escape from...

Purpose The Westminster Parliament is multifaceted, lacks cohesion and collective direction, appearing at times to challenge the very notion of a structured public institution itself. Within an environment with little identity, understanding who leads in UK challenging; there are multiple, contestable sites leadership governance. purpose this article explore understudied concept legislative lea...

Consideration of the nature New Testament Theology (NTT) necessitates an account theology or “God-talk”. Karl Barth grasped that all valid God-talk begins with God’s self-disclosure through Jesus and Spirit, which people acknowledge reflect on. Abandoning this starting point by way “Foundationalism”—that is, resorting to any alternative basis for God-talk—leads multiple destructive epistemologi...

Two important trends are discernible in the contemporary philosophy of human rights. According to foundationalism, human rights have importantly distinctive normative grounds as compared with other moral norms. An extreme version of foundationalism claims that human interests do not figure among the grounds of human rights; a more moderate version restricts the human interests that can ground h...