PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Coherentism, Rationality, Foundationalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2240
• Professor: Dr. Freedman

Document Summary

We are 1 chapter behind on our syllabus. You could have a whole bunch of believes that are justified but false. Justification is what you achieve by your own efforts. Foundationalism had a different approach: beliefs are justified inferentially, a belief which is justified in itself, the foundation and other beliefs are justified by them. You can"t be wrong about how something appears to you. Believing something because you can"t doubt it, vs believing something because you can"t be wrong. Let"s suppose you see someone cheating on a test, they are your bff, we have valiances (areas which we can attribute value that we can distinguish) from a moral standpoint. From a moral standpoint: yeah people shouldn"t cheat, however from a practical standpoint there your best friend and they won"t be your friend anymore so you shouldn"t. You can have different view point"s that map onto different domains. So when we"re asking questions about change, domain and truth.