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Ideas of Richard Foley, by Text

[American, fl. 2001, Professor at New York University.]

1987 The Theory of Epistemic Rationality
2.1 B p.149 Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Vahid]
2005 Justified Belief as Responsible Belief
p.314 p.314 Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification
p.317 p.317 Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory
p.320 p.320 We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it
p.322 p.322 Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints