Epistemological facets of Idealism: a Critical Analysis

Despite its overwhelming presence and persistent consequences in Western academic arena, Idealism suffers from internal contradictions in its foundations and basic shortcomings in its cognitive outcomes.The present article, at the first step, critically evaluates some of the epistemological foundations of Idealism, and then surveys theories of Coherentism, Pragmatism, and Structuralism as the three main epistemological upshots of Idealism. At the end, it reviews some of the arguments for the existence of the world, independent of mind, and refers to some final problems with Idealism in this regard.