I wrote more about #rationalism, #empiricism, and #foundationalism https://www.bryankam.com/p/rationalism-and-empiricism
I wrote more about #rationalism, #empiricism, and #foundationalism https://www.bryankam.com/p/rationalism-and-empiricism
Feeling this diagram critiquing the #foundationalism so many of my former #fundamentalists used to structure their claims.
Major ad hoc part of class yesterday.
William #Whewell's notion of #Consilience is often mentioned in this connection. It was later picked up by #EOWilson.
#Peirce's #Pragmatism takes some pains to side-step the superficial dichotomy between #Objectivism or #Foundationalism and #Coherentism or #Consensualism.
Susan #Haack, for instance, tries to integrate them in her concept of #Foundherentism.
Well, that's enough isms for one day ...
Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for #human #political existence or action. The edited volume puts #contemporary debates arising from the »spatial turn« in cultural and #social #sciences in a #dialogue with post-foundational #theories of space and place to devise post-#foundationalism as radical approach to #UrbanStudies.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5073-0/un-grounding/