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“Recent trends and future
prospects in epistemology” - A review of John Kekes
Fayemi Ademola Kazeem
Department of Philosophy, Lagos State University P.M.B 1087,
LASU Post Office, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. E -mail:
kcaristotle@yahoo.com
or
kcaristotle@gmail.com.
Accepted
24 September, 2009. |
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The
paper is a critical survey of John Kekes’ perspective on the
recent trends and future prospects of epistemology. The
three fundamental issues in contemporary epistemology that
engaged the attention of Kekes are intimately connected to
justification: foundationalism, skepticism and rationality.
The paper argues that Kekes’ epistemic survey of these
issues is on the one hand commendable as his analysis
clearly reveals a sound awareness, understanding and
apprehension of the recent trends and future prospects in
epistemology. On the other hand, the paper critically
exposes the conceptual flaws and problems that fraught Kekes’
epistemic survey in the final analysis.
Key
words:
Justification, foundationalism, fallibilism, skepticism,
rationality. |
