Evidence and Inquiry: Towards A Reconfiguration of Epistemology----Contemporary World Academic Masterpieces: Philosophy Series

Author: (British) Hacking / Chen Bo, etc.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book serves as an excellent introduction to contemporary epistemology while also making significant contributions to it. Susan Haack meticulously articulates and persuasively defends her own position, which skillfully navigates between transcendentalism and scientism. Additionally, she discusses the views of numerous contemporary philosophers, such as Karl Popper, Quine, Richard Rorty, Goldman, Paul Churchland, and Patricia Churchland, among others, offering strong and highly detailed critiques that compel these philosophers and their admirers to respond. This book is a major work in contemporary epistemology. It critiques two traditional theories of cognitive justification—foundationalism and coherentism—and develops a novel theory of cognitive justification—foundational-coherentism—using the analogy of a crossword puzzle as a key metaphor. This latter theory lies between foundationalism and coherentism, as well as between transcendentalism and scientism, and is fundamentally naturalistic.