The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

BonJour, L. (1985). The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1985

Link

https://archive.org/details/structureofempir00bonjmatched

Cited from

mathematics, philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Directed Acyclic Graph
  • Foundationalist accounts of justification demand a DAG to avoid infinite regress.

    This sourceFoundationalist justification requires a non-circular (acyclic) regress-terminating structure.

• Infinite Regress
  • Termination options: foundational stop (some belief is basic, needs no further justification—foundationalism, Chisholm ), circularity (beliefs mutually support each other in a web—coherentism, BonJour

Domain-specific

• Circular Reasoning
  • Mathematical induction has a base case; the hermeneutic spiral is anchored by fresh encounters with the text; a legitimate coherentist web is anchored by openness to external testing

    This sourceBonJour's coherentist epistemology, which requires a coherent system to satisfy an 'Observation Requirement' or lapse into incoherence. BonJour's setting of coherentism against foundationalism as the response to the regress of empirical justification.

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    “skeptical alternative to foundationalism is [coherentism]: the view that the regress of empirical”

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