American philosopher who developed a systematic coherentist theory of empirical justification and has also defended rationalism about a priori knowledge.
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge: coherentism — an empirical belief is justified if and only if it is part of a maximally coherent system of beliefs. This generates the cogency problem: what ensures coherent beliefs are true? In Defense of Pure Reason: a priori justification requires rational insight into necessary truths — a defense of rationalism against naturalism.
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