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February 15, 2010
New paper: How to be an internalist without direct, simultaneous access to justifiers
(Conference paper, February 15, 2010) (DOC) (PDF)
I argue that debates in the philosophy of perception between direct realists and representationalists should influence the debate in epistemology between internalist and externalist theories of justification. If the direct realists are correct, internalists are afforded more forms of access to the justifiers than externalists believe possible, but internalists can maintain their distinctive internalist identity while accepting this widened conception of access. To demonstrate this, I show how Alvin Goldman's critique of externalism fails to draw two important lessons from direct realism—one straightforward, the second analogical—for a theory of justification.
Posted by Ben at February 15, 2010 10:36 PM