Essays about: "Coherentism"

Found 2 essays containing the word Coherentism.

  1. 1. Knowledge, truth and the life-affirming ideal in Nietzsche’s perspectivism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Olsson Joakim; [2018]
    Keywords : knowledge; truth; Friedrich Nietzsche; perspectivism; perspective; life-affirming ideal; post-truth; coherentism; epistemology;

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  3. 2. Coherentism and the Sensation Objection

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Simon Rosenqvist; [2013]
    Keywords : Coherentism; BonJour; introspection; Sensation objection.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Coherentist theories of justification face the Sensation objection, according to which some experiences, such as that of a headache, independently justify us in holding certain beliefs regardless of whether they cohere with the rest of our beliefs. Since coherentism holds that our beliefs are justified only on the basis of coherence with the rest of our beliefs, coherentism is, or so it has been argued, false. READ MORE