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The 15 pages that link to Foundationalism, each with the reason it gives.

• EpistemologyRelated: It answers how justification can avoid depending on an endless chain of reasons.

• RationalismRelated: Rationalist systems often seek secure starting points for knowledge.

• Philosophical skepticismCompared with: It answers skeptical regress by proposing beliefs that need no further justification.

• Postmodern philosophyCompared with: Postmodern philosophy questions whether knowledge can rest on secure, universal foundations.

• Alvin PlantingaCompared with: Plantinga challenges the idea that religious belief needs inferential support to be rational.

• FallibilismRelated: Fallibilist foundationalists allow basic beliefs to support knowledge without being indubitable.

• JustificationRelated: It explains how justification can avoid an endless chain of inferential support.

• Reflective equilibriumCompared with: It offers a foundation-based alternative to justification through mutual support.

• ReliabilismCompared with: Foundationalism explains the structure of justification, while reliabilism chiefly explains its source.

• Dream argumentNarrower topic: The argument pressures foundational projects to identify beliefs secure against dream-based doubt.

• Infinite regressRelated: It stops justificatory regress by positing beliefs that need no inferential support.

• Richard RortyCompared with: Rorty rejects the search for such ultimate supports as the defining task of epistemology.

• Circular reasoningCompared with: It aims to stop justification from looping by grounding it in non-inferential beliefs.

• John McDowellCompared with: McDowell rejects foundations understood as a Given outside the space of reasons.

• William AlstonCompared with: Alston’s practice-based account offers an alternative to simple foundationalist explanations.