Laurence A. BonJour

EDUCATION:

• B.A., summa cum laude, Macalester College, May, 1965.
• Ph.D. (in philosophy), Princeton University, October, 1969.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Philosophy of science, philosophy of law, ethics, political philosophy, history of ancient philosophy.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

• The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985
• In Defense of Pure Reason, London: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Articles:

• Sellars on Truth and Picturing, International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 13 (1973), pp. 243-65.
• Rescher's Idealistic Pragmatism, The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 29 (1976), pp. 702-26.
• Determinism, Libertarianism, and Agent Causation, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 14 (1976), pp. 145-56.
• The Coherence Theory of Empirical Knowledge, Philosophical Studies, vol. 30 (1976), pp. 281-312; reprinted in Paul Moser (ed.) Empirical Knowledge (Rowman & Littlefield, 1986), in Louis Pojman (ed.), The Theory of Knowledge (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1993), and in Michael Goodman and Robert A. Snyder (eds.) Contemporary Readings in Epistemology (Prentice-Hall, 1993).
• Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation? American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 15 (1978), pp. 1-14; reprinted in Paul Moser (ed.), Empirical Knowledge (Totowa, N. J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986) and in Louis Pojman (ed.), The Theory of Knowledge (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1993).
• Rescher's Philosophical System, in E. Sosa (ed.), The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1979), pp. 157-72.
• Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. 5 (1980), pp. 53-73.
• Reply to Christlieb, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24 (1986), pp. 415-29.
• A Reconsideration of the Problem of Induction, Philosophical Topics, vol. 14 (1986), pp. 93-124.
• Nozick, Externalism, and Skepticism, in S. Luper-Foy (ed.), The Possibility of Knowledge: Nozick and His Critics (Totowa, N. J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987), pp. 297-313.
• Reply to Steup, Philosophical Studies, vol.
• Reply to Moser, Analysis, vol. 48 (1988), pp. 164-65.
• Replies and Clarifications, in J. W. Bender (ed.), The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence BonJour (Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1989), pp. 276-92.
• Is Thought a Symbolic Process? Synthese, vol. 89 (1991), pp. 331-52.
• A Rationalist Manifesto, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 18 (1992), pp. 53-88.
• Fumerton on Coherence Theories, Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 19 (1994), pp. 104-108.
• Against Naturalized Epistemology, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. 19 (1994), pp. 283-300.
• Sosa on Knowledge, Justification, and Aptness, Philosophical Studies, vol. 78 (1995), pp. 207-220.
• Toward a Moderate Rationalism, Philosophical Topics, vol. 23 (1995), pp. 47-78.
• Plantinga on Knowledge and Proper Function, in Jonathan Kvanvig (ed.), Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), pp. 47-71.
• Haack on Justification and Experience, forthcoming from Synthese.
• The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism, forthcoming in the Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, ed. John Greco and Ernest Sosa.

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles:

• Externalism/Internalism and Problems of Induction, in E. Sosa & J. Dancy (eds.), A Companion To Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
• A Priori/A Posteriori, Coherence Theory of Truth, and Broad, Charlie Dunbar in The Cambridge Dictionary Of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Coherence Theory of  Truth and Knowledge, forthcoming in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.