Day 20: Coherentism

•      Review / Questions

•      Coherentism: The Basics

•      Keith Lehrer’s Coherentism

•      Objections and Replies

•      Study for Test 2, which is on Day 21

•      Read parts 2 and 3 of “Critical Notice: BonJour and Sosa on Epistemic Justification” for Day 22

Coherentism: The Basics

•      What are the basic commitments?

•      Varieties of coherentism

•      Contributors to coherence

Keith Lehrer’s Coherentism

•      Acceptance

•      Acceptance System

•      Comparative Reasonability

–  Epistemic Competitors

–  Relative or Comparative Coherence

•      Personal Justification

•      One’s own trustworthiness, and its justification

•      Knowledge as undefeated justification

–  match theorist w.r.t. internalism & externalism

Objections and Replies

•      Can you justify your beliefs about what you believe without basic/foundational beliefs?

•      Is coherence too liberal?

•      Is coherence too conservative?

•      Does coherence isolate belief (or acceptance) from the world?