Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- One: The Limits of Metaphysics and the Limits of Certainty -- Two: Foundationalism in Plato? -- Three: Foundationalism and Temporal Paradox -- Four: Hierarchy and Early Empiricism -- Five: Hegel, German Idealism, and Antifoundationalism -- Six: Nietzsche and the Problem of Ground -- Seven: Like Bridges without Piers -- Eight: Pragmatism and the Reconstruction of Metaphysics -- Nine: Metaphysics without Mirrors -- Ten: Metaphysics and Validation -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF TITLES.
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The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book traces the foundationalism/antifoundationalism controversy in the work of many important figures--Animaxander, Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Hegel and Nietzsche, Habermas and Chisholm, and others--throughout the history of philosophy. The contributors, Joseph Margolis, Ronald Polansky, Gary Calore, Fred and Emily Michael, William Wurzer, Charlene Haddock Siegfried, Sandra B. Rosenthal, Kathleen Wallace, and the editors present well the diversity, interest, and roots of antifoundationalism.