Laurence BonJour

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

Life

BonJour graduated with a BS from Macalester College and received his PhD from Princeton University with Richard Rorty . BonJour taught at the University of Texas at Austin and then at the University of Washington . His teaching focus is on British empiricism , epistemology and Immanuel Kant's philosophy.

Laurence BonJour fame is that his work The Coherency Theory of Knowledge (The coherence theory of knowledge) international reputation. In 1969 he took a stand against fundamentalism . BonJour complemented and revived Descartes' point of view . In 1999, The dialectic of foundamentalism and coherentism , he deviated from his original idea of ​​coherence and tended towards fundamentalism.

Publications

• The Coherence Theory of Empirical Knowledge. In: Philosophical Studies 30 (1976), pp. 281-312.
• The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. Xiii, 258.
• In Defense of Pure Reason. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. Xiv, 232.
• Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), pp. Viii, 283.
• Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (together with Ernest Sosa ). (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. Vii, 240.
• Philosophical Problems: An Annotated Anthology (edited with Ann Baker ). (New York: Longman, 2005), pp. Xvi, 876.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Washington - English