Repository | Journal | Volume | Articles

(2018) Synthese 195 (11).
In this paper I examine contemporary accounts of noninferential justification in light of what I take to be the Cartesian project of building epistemology on foundations made secure by the impossibility of error. I argue that familiar abstract arguments for foundationalism, by themselves, don’t seem to motivate Cartesianism. But I further argue that there is one version of foundationalism that is more closely linked to the way in which Descartes sought ideal knowledge.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1456-2
Full citation:
Fumerton, R. (2018). Cartesian epistemology and infallible justification. Synthese 195 (11), pp. 4671-4681.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.