Volume 3, Issue 2, 2003
Nikola Grahek
Pages 145-153
Austin and the Very Idea of the Theory of Knowledge
Austin’s destructive contextualist criticism of the theory of knowledge, as grounded on foundationalism, is presented. It is claimed that incorrigibility is not a secondary issue for the foundationalist conception of knowledge and justification, even if the hallmark of foundationalism is not to be sought in the so-called ‘quest for certainty’, but rather in the idea of epistemological realism.