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• Title:
  Coherentism Discomposed: A Critique of Bonjour's the Structure of Empirical Knowledge
• Creator:
  Haack, Susan
• Description:
  I think Lewis is quite right to hold that its inability to allow the relevance of experience to justification is an insuperable difficulty for coherentism. Coheren- tists, however, naturally enough, argue that the difficulty is superable. This paper is a case study of one attempt to overcome it: BonJour’s. BonJour attempts to accommodate experiential input within a coherentist framework by means of the imposition of an additional requirement, the ‘Observation Requirement’, on justification. This, however, turns out to be ambiguous: on one interpretation it is compatible with coherentism but fails to guarantee experiential input; on the other, it guarantees observational input all right but sacrifices the coherentist character of the theory.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
• Date:
  2007.01.02
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Vol. 2 (1992); 16-23;
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Tom 2 (1992); 16-23;
  2392-1196;
  0867-4159
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.1992.003/13482
• Subject:
  conherentism;
  empirical knowledge;
  BonJour
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.1992.003
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text