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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"foundationalism"”.
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Rational Foundationalism
Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. Philosophers have used this principle in arguments for the existence of something ontologically fundamental, an ultimate ground of being, such as God. But if everything has an explanation of its existence, so, too, does whatever is …
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Descartes and Foundationalism: A Definitive Explanation for Knowledge Possession?
… way, as an example of strong classical foundationalism or whether this traditional account needs to be revised. I will argue not only that the traditional account of Descartes’s epistemoiogy should be revised, but that there is a particular interpretation that may provide compelling …
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The Case Against Foundationalism: An Examination of Some Main Anti-Foundational Arguments
… a first (somewhat rough) characterization of foundationalism, and providing a list of ten sorts of anti-foundational arguments to be considered.
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Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
… problem threatens the viability of epistemic foundationalism. Foundationalism claims that there are some beliefs whose justification does not depend upon other beliefs. Foundationalism is a popular, non-skeptical response to the epistemic regress problem. In this dissertation I investigate the …
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Skepticism avoided
… the meaning of "justified", the viability of foundationalism, the value of knowledge, and the role of belief in rational action. In the first chapter, I examine the following skeptical argument: Something is justified only if justified by a justified thing; circular and infinite chains of …
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Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
… belief that all appeals to experience imply foundationalism and that we should focus only on language. In developing a non-foundational account of experience I emphasize the qualities of action and meliorism that we find in Classical Pragmatist notions of experience. I exploit Rortys …
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Are the Princetonians Passé?: Evaluating the post-conservative critique of Charles Hodge
… upon postmodern criticisms of the credibility of foundationalism, propositionalism, and realism. The conclusion drawn and defended is that Hodge‘s theological method, particularly his use of Scottish Realism, while in need of some modification, is plausible, even in a postmodern context.
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Deceiving Appearances: Problems for the Evidential Insensitivity Approach to Phenomenal Dogmatism
Foundationalism about justification has historically enjoyed widespread acceptance among philosophers despite equally widespread disagreement about how foundational justification is possible. It is widely agreed that all knowledge must by justified by a foundation that does not stand in need of …
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Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality
… a strong argument can be formulated for foundationalism over infinitism. Thus, there must exist something fundamental whose existence is ungrounded, but which grounds the existence of everything else.
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Samspil trúar og stjórnmála í Egyptalandi
… lýðræðis skilgreindur og kenningar grunnhyggju (foundationalism)og fjölhyggju(pluralism) notaðar til að varpa ljósi á hann. Í ritgerðinni verður reynt að varpa ljósi á þær sögulegu aðstæður sem Íslamska bræðralagið sprettur upp úr og hvernig þær hafi getað ýtt undir útbreiðslu hugmyndafræði þess. …
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Giorgio Agamben and Post-Foundational Political Ontology
… “Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Messianic Fulfilment’ of Foundationalism in Politics” ja “Towards a Rethinking of Laclau and Mouffe’s Conception of ‘Social Antagonisms’”) arendavad ülalmainitud ideesid detailselt.
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The Spirit as the Lord and the Giver of Life: Recovering Relational Pneumatology and Its Significance for Being Church in Postcolonial Nigeria
… Aristotelian metaphysics with its orientation to foundationalism and immobility in a manner destructive of difference, plurality, and the relational language of the Spirit as witnessed in the Bible. One of the upshots became the totalizing bent of Western epistemology which eventually found …
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The professional knowledge base for teaching : a philosophical justification for a plurality of ways of knowing
… contexts. I begin by demonstrating how the foundationalism of the positivist/technicist paradigm in education is a manifestation of the modern rational-scientific quest for certainty: a movement which cleaned the slate of 'unscientific' propositions, and advocated the utilization of rational …
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Fragmentary States: A Study of Power in Conflict Narratives from Peru and Colombia
… The second, building on these works’ anti-foundationalism, explores how literary representations of Sendero Luminoso soldiers in Peru humanise the figure of the necropolitically-defined state ‘enemy’. The subsequent chapter examines Colombian cinema’s return to the rural, specifically as a …
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A Contemporary Consideration of the Role of Metaphysics in Systematic Theology: The Contributions of Pope John Paul II and Claude Tresmontant
… tradition, arguing for the elimination of foundationalism in all its forms. Chapter Five places all four thinkers in dialogue and concludes with some propositions for future collaboration.
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Nicholas Wolterstorff's Reformed epistemology and its challenge to Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism.
… offers an alternative epistemology to that of foundationalism, which I call innocence epistemology. The second is a Post-Enlightenment public epistemology liberalism that argues for religious-reason restraint on the basis of a political doctrine. Wolterstorff develops this position through the …
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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
… to make room for a new brand of inductivist foundationalism."
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The Structure of Meta-Scientific Claims: Toward a Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
… the world. Finally, I advocate a contingent foundationalism on which STS can be made relevant to an understanding of science and technology.
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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… <p>experiences, but that this is compatible with foundationalism and perceptualism.</p> <p>Finally, I return to the issue of epistemic access, arguing that the perceptual view</p> <p>provides an explanation of our epistemic access to the moral properties.</p>
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
The three integrated articles of this dissertation are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take …
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