Towards developing naturalistic coherentism

Abstract

Criticisms of naturalistic coherentism are suggested that are not raised by its critics in the literature. The rejection of traditional foundationalism does not necessarily entail the acceptance of coherentism. Coherentism can be seen as another version of foundationalism. Most interestingly, Evers and Lakomski’s stance on “strong vs weak” naturalism seems to be vague. Then, in closing, it is suggested that a recent theory in epistemology termed “foundherentism” might provide some avenues for the further development of naturalistic coherentism, such as by emphasising empirical input in coherentism and adopting a weak version of naturalism.

Citation

Hyung Park, S. (2001), "Towards developing naturalistic coherentism", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 39 No. 6, pp. 589-603. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230110407904