Groundless Belief

An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition

Michael Williams

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Princeton University Press
05 October 1999

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Michael Williams launches an attack, in this text, on what he calls ""phenomenalism"", the idea that knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term ""phenomenalism"", according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors. William's target is not phenomenalism in its classical sense-datum and reductionist form but empiricism generally, he examines and rejects the idea that, unless beliefs are answerable to a ""given"" element in experience, objective knowledge will be impossible. The mild version of coherentism that results from a radical rejection of empiricist foundationalism does not ""cut people off from the world"". Far from being an antidote to scepticism, empiricist preconceptions are scepticism's main source. This edition contains an afterword in which Michael Williams places his arguments in the context of some discussions of coherentism versus the Myth of the Given and explains their relation to subsequent developments in his own epistemological views.

By: Michael Williams
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780691009070
ISBN 10: 0691009074
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 October 1999
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Williams is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University.

Reviews for Groundless Belief: An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition

[An] intriguing work... Williams has an array of deft, decisive arguments directed at the views of Lewis, Ayer, Chisholm, Sellars, Bennett, et al... Tightly argued. --Alan Hart, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research