Thorough and careful, it is also well conceived and well written and does not get lost in details. “ The Structure of Empirical Knowledge is important as a very lucid and perceptive treatment of the coherence/foundations controversy. This is a very fine work, something people will be reading and reacting to for some time to come. The entire work is outstanding for the way BonJour bends over backward to formulate and answer objections to his positions. The Structure of Empirical Knowledge Laurence BonJour Harvard University Press The Structure of Empirical Knowledge Laurence BonJour Product Details PAPERBACK Print on Demand 43.00 £37.95 39. Toward a Coherence Theory of Empirical Knowledge. “BonJour develops what is undoubtedly the strongest version of a coherence theory of epistemic justification that has been produced. Each step in the argument is clearly motivated and many of the steps are original… The writing style is straightforward, clear, and polished.
The overall structure of the book is well conceived. article, 'The Coherence Theory of Empirical Knowledge,' Philosophical Studies 30 (1976): 281-312z Part I argues that foundationalism fails to solve the epistemic regress prob- lem, the problem of specifying whether, and if so how, epistemic justification can be transferred from one empirical belief (or set of such beliefs) to another by inferent. “This book is a significant contribution. “An important work… A penetrating analysis of difficulties in the major types of foundationalist theory and a defense of a novel version of the coherence theory of epistemic justification… A valuable work that will repay close examination by anyone concerned with what may well be the single most important problem in the theory of knowledge. Clearly this is a major project… We are offered thought-provoking glimpses of the blueprints for certain large components, most notably a defense of internalism in the theory of justification, a coherentist notion of observation, and an appeal to a priori knowledge of probabilities in the ‘metajustification’ of a coherence theory… The virtues of this book include lucid writing, perspicuous organization, and careful argumentation. “In this unpretentious, well-written study Laurence BonJour…rejects foundationalist theories of epistemic justification and sees no alternative to a coherence theory, the main features of which he goes on to elaborate. The Structure of Empirical Knowledge - Softcover BonJour, Laurence 4.
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