Anti-foundationalism
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Anti-foundationalism (also called nonfoundationalism) as the name implies, is a term applied to any philosophy which rejects a foundationalist approach, i.e. an anti-foundationalist is one who does not believe that there is some fundamental belief or principle which is the basic ground or foundation of inquiry and knowledge.
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Anti-foundationalists
- John Dewey
- Michel Foucault
- G.W.F. Hegel
- William James
- Nagarjuna
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Richard Rorty
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Seng Ts'an
- Giambattista Vico
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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See also
- Coherentism
- Contextualism
- Foundationalism
- Justified true belief
- Nominalism
- Postfoundationalism
- Postmodern philosophy
- Pragmatism
- Relativism
- Reliabilism
- Skepticism
- Verificationism
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