Concept
Foundationalism
Overview
theory in epistemology which sees some beliefs as being justified in terms of more basic beliefs, some of which are seen as being so basic so as to not require any further justification
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Philosophers who discussed Foundationalism
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Moritz Schlick
- Nagarjuna
- Plato
- René Descartes
- Thomas Reid
- Anthony Kenny
- William Alston
- Wilfrid Sellars
- F. H. Bradley
- Robert Audi
- Gottlob Frege
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Edmund Husserl
- Laurence BonJour
- Luciano Floridi
- H. A. Prichard
Related ideas
- Category (Kant)
- Empiricism
- Reformed epistemology
- Cognition
- Self-evidence
- Anti-foundationalism
- Wilhelm Windelband
- George Berkeley
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Frederick C. Beiser
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Western philosophy
- Ad infinitum
- Immanuel Kant
- Internalism and externalism
- John Locke
- Infallibility
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Logical positivism
- Neopragmatism
- Mental event
- Metaphysics
- Basic belief
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
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