Roderick M. Chisholm

Born: 1917. Died: 1999
Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1942
Was Professor at Brown University

Chisholm is best known for producing a system of epistemic principles designed to confer justification on those things we common-sensically think we know. There are basic or foundational principles which confer justification on "self-presenting" psychological states and other principles which increase the level of justification when coherence is present.