![]() Coherence and the Truth Connection: A Reply to My Critics.- 2. ![]() The Multiple Faces of Knowing: The Hierarchies of Epistemic Species.- 4. Focus: Coherence and Related Epistemic Concerns.- 1. ![]() BonJour's Anti-Foundationalist Argument.- 10. Coherence, Observation, and the Justification of Empirical Belief.- 8. The first goal occupies Part I the second, Part II. Coherentist Theories of Knowledge Don't Apply to Enough Outside of Science and Don't Give the Right Results When Applied to Science.- 6. This book has two main goals: to show the explanatory inadequacy of the available foundationalist theories of empirical justification and to formulate and defend a novel coherence theory' of empirical justification that avoids the defects of foundationalism and of traditional coherence theories. Circularity, Non-Linear Justification, and Holistic Coherentism.- 5. BonJour's Coherence Theory of Justification.- 3. BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge.- 2. Focus: Laurence Bonjour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge.- 1. When Can What You Don't Know Hurt You'.- III. How Reasonable is Lehrer's Coherence Theory? Beats Me.- 6. Lehrer's Coherence Theory of Knowledge.- 5. Fundamental Troubles With the Coherence Theory.- 4. Personal Coherence, Objectivity and Reliability.- 3. Lehrer's Coherentism and the Isolation Objection.- 2. Marshall Swain's and Alvin Goldman's papers were originally presented at a symposium on BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge at the annual meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, in April, 1987.Ĭoherence, Justification, and Knowledge: The Current Debate.- I. All of the essays but two are published for the first time here. I thank each one personally for agreeing so freely to contribute. The many authors represented here were willing, prepared, and excited to join in the discussion of BonJour's and Lehrer's recent writings. A sure indication of this was the ease with which the papers in this volume were solicited and delivered. This book concentrates, however, on the theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence BonJour, and I doubt that any epistemologist would deny that they are presently the two leading proponents of coherentism. Although it would be incorrect to say that each of these writers has set forth a version of the coherence theory of justification and knowledge, it is clear that their work is directly relevant, and reaction to it could easily fill a companion volume. If the goal were completeness, then this book would have included essays on the work of other philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman and Michael Williams. The subtitle of this book should be read as a qualification as much as an elaboration of the title.
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