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.
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