PUBLICATIONS:
Laurence BonJour
Books:
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1985),
pp. xiii, 258.
In Defense of Pure Reason.
(London: Cambridge
University Press, 1998), pp. xiv, 232.
Epistemology:
Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses. (
Epistemic
Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (jointly with Ernest Sosa). (
Philosophical
Problems: An Annotated Anthology (jointly
edited with Ann Baker). (
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,”
“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
“Reply to Solomon,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
“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,”
“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 ( Rowman &
Littlefield, 1996), pp. 47-71.
“Haack on Justification
and Experience,” Synthese.
“The Dialectic of
Foundationalism and Coherentism,” in the Blackwell
Guide to Epistemology, ed. John Greco and Ernest Sosa, Blackwell.
“Toward a Defense of Empirical
Foundationalism,” in Michael DePaul (ed.), Resurrecting Old-Fashioned
Foundationalism (
“Foundationalism and
the External World,” in James Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives,
vol. 13 (2000).
Critical study of Evan
Fales, A Defense of the Given, Nous.
“The Indispensability
of Internalism,” Philosophical Topics.
“Internalism and
Externalism,” in the
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
“Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge,” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
“Epistemological Problems of Perception,”
in the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Reviews:
Of Gilbert Harman, Thought, Philosophical Review,
vol. 84 (1975), pp. 256-58.
Of R. M. Dworkin (ed.), Philosophy of Law; and Kenneth Kipnis (ed.), Philosophical
Issues in Law, Teaching Philosophy,
vol. 2 (1977-78), pp. 325-28.
Of James Cornman, Skepticism, Justification, and Explanation, Philosophical Review, vol. 91 (1982), pp. 612-15.
Of D. J. O'Connor and
Brian Carr, Introduction to the Theory of
Knowledge, Teaching Philosophy,
vol. 7 (1984), pp. 64-66.
Of Paul Ziff, Epistemic Analysis, Canadian
Philosophical Reviews
Of
Of Alan Goldman, Empirical Knowledge, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Of Robert Fogelin,
Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification,
Times Literary Supplement.
Of Michael DePaul and William Ramsey
(eds.), Rethinking Intuition, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science.
Of Paul
Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke (eds.), New Essays on the A Priori, forthcoming in Mind.