Laurence BonJour

Laurence BonJour ( August 31, 1943) is an American philosopher.

Life

BonJour graduated as a Bachelor of Science degree from Macalester College and received his doctorate at Princeton University, under Richard Rorty. BonJour taught at the University of Texas at Austin and then at the University of Washington. His teaching interests are in British empiricism in epistemology and philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

Laurence BonJour gained international reputation especially with his work The Coherency Theory of Knowledge ( The coherence theory of knowledge). He was referring in 1969 a counter-position to fundamentalism. BonJour amended and revived the view of Descartes. In the appeared in the 1999 book The dialectic of foundamentalism and coherentism ( dialectic of fundamentalism and coherentism ') he differs from his original idea of consistency again and tends to fundamentalism.

Publications

  • The Coherence Theory of Empirical Knowledge. In: Philosophical Studies 30 (1976 ), pp. 281-312.
  • Philosophical Problem: An Annotated Anthology ( edited together with Ann Baker). (New York: Longman, 2005), pp. xvi, 876
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