Is coherentism coherent
In ‘A reductio of coherentism’ Tom Stoneham offers an interesting and novel argument against epistemological coherentism. ‘On the face of it’, he writes, ‘the argument gives a conclusive reductio ad absurdum of any coherence theory of justification. But that cannot be right, can it?’ (2007: 254). It could be right (for no philosophical position is in principle immune to a reductio). But it isn’t. Stoneham’s first step is to argue that coherentists are committed to the claim that: