KnowraFoundationalismLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Foundationalism, each with the reason it gives.All 15Related 5Narrower topic 1Compared with 9Philosophical 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.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.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.