Aims of the Unit The overall purpose of this unit is to get you to read some writings by feminists and see the profoundly new and perhaps unsettling epistemological ideas they have put forward. We hope that by the end of the unit no one will characterise feminist philosophers of science as a unified school. Objectives By the end of this unit you should be able to:) See some limitations of groun...

Experiential acquaintance is an alleged relation between ourselves and our experiences that has sometimes been hypothesised as necessary for knowledge of experiences. This paper begins with a clarification ‘acquaintance’ explanation ‘experience’ focuses attention on famous, but flawed, argument by G. E. Moore. It goes to critically examine several recent arguments concerning experiential show h...

The future role for methodology will be conditioned both by the way in which its content has developed in the direction of pluralism, and by the growth and specialisation of the field. The paper suggests that, for methodology to steer a successful course between foundationalism and relativism, there needs to be clarity about the meta-methodological frameworks which methodologists employ (since ...

This essay analyses the concept of ' base' in relation to its use in evidence-based medicine (EBM). It evaluates the extent to which evidence provides a sufficient base for health care to rest and discusses whether medicine needs a base, and, if so, what are the other possible candidates. This paper will argue that EBM is linked epistemologically to the theory of foundationalism and shows how i...


 This paper warns against misunderstanding the logical empiricists’ take on concepts of experience and empiricism. Far from expressing traditionalist way-of-ideas conceptions, these were themselves rethought refashioned to accord with their overall aim making contemporary philosophy science fit for purpose. To this end, disarms supposed counter-examples Schlick’s foundationalism Carnap’s ...

one of the approaches which defends the rationality of religious beliefs is the reformed epistemology. among reformed epistemologists, wolterstorff’s view is subject to less criticism. this article tries to present epistemological foundations of wolterstorff’s view by describing and analyzing the statements which he has offered in his works. wolterstorff’s epistemological foundations are explai...

1. Foundationalists and coherentists disagree over the structure of the part of the mental state corpus that is relevant for epistemic achievement Given the goals of a theory of epistemic justification and the trajectory of the debate over the last three decades, it is not difficult to see how structural questions possess a kind of immediacy. In order to undertake an epistemic evaluation of a b...