On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical Realism

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In ancient times, the main approaches to metaphysical realism were intuitive. In modern times, foundationalism has replaced intuition as the main strategy to make out metaphysical realist claims to know. In On Foundationalism, Rockmore argues that foundationalism fails in all its known variants.

Author(s): Tom Rockmore
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 148

Contents......Page 2
Introduction: On Realism and Foundationalism......Page 3
1 Realism, Platonic Realism, Truth, and Knowledge......Page 15
2 Epistemological Foundationalism......Page 47
3 Foundationalism as a System......Page 65
4 Foundationalism as Representationalism......Page 89
5 On Recent Foundationalism......Page 111
Index......Page 143
About the Author......Page 149