The traditional debate over skepticism has largely presupposed the framework of foundationalism. With the rise of the intemalism/externalism debate in epistemology, however, it is apparent that there are radically different ways to understand foundational justification. In this chapter we begin by examining the traditional epistemic regress argument for foundationalism. Before presenting what I...

traditional foundationalism, initially put forward by aristotle, also received attention in the middle ages. thomas aquinas sustained the theory with a little bit adaptation. but, becuase of his unique conception of the mechanism of knowledge acquisition, william of ockham suggested a theory of foundationalism based on direct realism. in order to avoid the criticisms levelled at aristotle'...

belief in the existence of god has always been attacked by opponents. one of them is the so called evidentalism challenge. in this paper, the opinions of allama muhammad hussain tabataba, and alvin plantinga about the above mentioned challenge are discussed and compared. although both believe that belief in god does’nt need to be proved and arguments just support the faith but, belonging to a t...

According to the Religious Openness Hypothesis, the religious and psychological openness of American Christians is obscured by a defensive ghettoization of thought associated with a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Surround and can be discovered instead within a Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surround. A test of this claim examined Religious Fundamentalism, Biblical Foundationalism, Q...

Millard J. Erickson is the Distinguished Professor of Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. In addition to teaching at a number of institutions during his career, Dr. Erickson also served as the Vice President and Dean at Bethel Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the recently published Making Sense of the Trinity (Bak...

I provide a construal of the epistemic regress problem and I take issue with the contention that a foundationalist solution is incompatible with an internalist account of warrant. I sketch a foundationalist solution to the regress problem that respects a plausible version of internalism. I end with the suggestion that the strategy that I have presented is not available only to the traditional v...

Finitism, intuitionism, constructivism, formalism, predicativism, structuralism, objectivism, platonism; foundationalism, anti-foundationalism, first orderism; constructive type theory, Cantorian set theory, proof theory; top down principles or building up from below—framework commitments, that is, ideology, permeates the logician’s mathematical life. Such commitments set ∗This paper is based o...

281 ing of justifi cation is, in my terms, that (1) the epistemologist has to choose between (a) mind-internalist foundationalism (e.g., evidentialism), (b) mind-externalist foundationalism (e.g., process reliabilism), and (c) mind-internalist coherentism (e.g., simple coherentism), and (2) objections such as the Alternative-Systems Objection and the Isolation Objection dictate against choosing...

Epistemic Structure of Islamic Philosophies of Education: Foundationalism or Coherentism M.R. Madanifar N. Sajjaadiyeh, Ph.D. Given the two approaches to epistemology emphasizing foundationalism or coherentism, it is of interest to know if the epistemic structure of Islamic philosophies of education is related to any of these two or has a structure of its own, given that each...