Nelsons Infragestellung der Erkenntnistheorie. Ein Beitrag zur systematischen Rekonstruktion und Diskussion, unter Berücksichtigung des Kommentars von Victor Kraft

Abstract

Nelson’s Questioning of Epistemology. A Contribution to the Systematic Reconstruction and Discussion, with Consideration of the Commentary by Victor Kraft The present paper attempts to reconstruct some of the key presuppositions of the critique, with which Leonard Nelson (1882–1927) confronted the problematic of gnoseology. Nelson recognized the demand for a general criterium of the veracity of knowledge—this confirms also Victor Kraft’s (1880–1975) interpretation—as the central question of all foundation of the possibility of knowledge. The latter cannot be considered as a problem, but as the original givenness. Thus, Nelson’s questioning of epistemology argues neither for skepticism nor for dogmatism, but instead represents a sort of epistemological fundamentalism.

Keywords

• leonard nelson
• gnoseology
• victor kraft
• epistemological fundamentalism