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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. Anti-foundationalists use logical or historical/genealogical attacks on foundational concepts (see especially Nietzsche and Foucault), often coupled with alternative methods for justifying and forwarding intellectual inquiry, such as the pragmatic subordination of knowledge to practical action.
Anti-foundationalists oppose metaphysical methods. Moral and ethical anti-foundationalists are often criticized for moral relativism, but anti-foundationalists often dispute this charge, offering alternative methods of moral thought that they claim do not require foundations.[citation needed]
Anti-foundationalists
G.W.F. Hegel is considered to be one of the early anti-foundationalists
- John Dewey
- Stanley Fish
- 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
See also
- Coherentism
- Contextualism
- Foundationalism
- Justified true belief
- Nominalism
- Postfoundationalism
- Postmodern philosophy
- Pragmatism
- Relativism
- Reliabilism
- Skepticism
- Verificationism
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