Foundationalism has replaced intuition in modern times as the main strategy for developing metaphysical realist claims to know. Rockmore (philosophy, Duquesne U., Pennsylvania) argues that it fails in all its known variants, and blames Kant. Kant's complex position is both foundationalist and anti-foundationalist, he says, both committed to metaphysical realism and, through its commitment to empirical realism, opposed to metaphysical realism: before Kant, it made sense to search for a variety of foundationalism that would work, but not anymore. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In ancient times, the main approaches to metaphysical realism were intuitive. In modern times, foundationalism has replaced intuition as the main strategy to make out metaphysical realist claims to know. In On Foundationalism, Rockmore argues that foundationalism fails in all its known variants.
