Two Legacies of Goldman's Epistemology

Goldman's epistemology has been influential in two ways. First, it has influenced some philosophers to think that, contrary to erst-while orthodoxy, relations of evidential support, or confirmation, are not discoverable a priori. Second, it has offered some philosophers a powerful argument in favor of methodological reliance on intuitions about thought experiments in doing philosophy. This paper argues that these two legacies of Goldman's epistemology conflict with each other.