Abstract The idea of ‘the given’ and its alleged problematic status as most famously articulated by Sellars (1956, 1981) continues to be at the center heated controversies about foundationalism in epistemology, ‘conceptualism’ nonconceptual content philosophy perception, nature experiential given phenomenology cognitive sciences. I argue that question just what myth is supposed first place more...

We propose a criterion to regard a property of a theory (in first or second order logic) as virtuous: the property must have significant mathematical consequences for the theory (or its models). We then rehearse results of Ajtai, Marek, Magidor, H. Friedman and Solovay to argue that for second order logic, ‘categoricity’ has little virtue. For first order logic, categoricity is trivial; but ‘ca...

Abstract Kant's critique of rational psychology is a thought experiment that targets no individual or school, but rather the natural tendency human reason to “hypostatize” highest intellectual condition all cognition (the pure ‘I think’) as though it were itself ‘I.’ To do so violate very anti-circularity stricture also at work in better-known transcendental critiques Locke and Hume. Along with...

The relation between politics, ontology, and space remains one of the most contested concerns in human geography, often leading to a dismissal ontology favor politicization space. In contrast, this article mobilizes post-foundationalism propose political After reviewing geographers’ engagements with post-politics political, demonstrates how post-foundational geography radically uproots geograph...

In this paper, we shall describe and critically evaluate four contemporary theories which attempt to solve the problem of the infinite regress of reasons: BonJour's ‘impure’ coherentism, BonJour's foundationalism, Haack's ‘foundherentism’ and Dancy's pure coherentism. These theories are initially put forward as theories about the justification of our empirical beliefs; however, in fact they als...