Recent Posts Tagged With 'externalism'

• Causal vs. Rational Explanations (Part 3)

  Posted on Thursday April 12th, 2007 at 09:52 in epistemology, internalism, externalism, causal theory, justification

  In my post Causal vs Rational Explanations (Part1) I suggest that the 'Fanatical Tom' objection seems to pose a problem of causal theorists regarding justification. There are two strategies, available to the causal theorist, for responding to thi...

• Causal vs. Rational Explanations (Part 1)

  Posted on Thursday March 1st, 2007 at 09:02 in epistemology, internalism, externalism, causal theory, justification

  According to many J-externalists, a belief is only justified if it is caused in the right sort of way (for example, by a reliable process). Thus, we arrive at (J-Ext[C]):(J-Ext[C]) For any agent S, S's belief that p is justified IFF it is caused in t...

• J-Reliabilism and the New Evil Genius

  Posted on Friday December 29th, 2006 at 12:23 in epistemology, externalism, justification, reliabilism, new evil genius

  In this post, I outline what has come to be known as the New Evil Genius objection to reliabilism. There are several versions of reliabilism currently available, but the one I have in mind has to do with justification and amounts the following clai...

• Greco's Argument that McDowell is an Externalist

  Posted on Thursday December 7th, 2006 at 18:55 in epistemology, internalism, externalism, mcdowell, philosophy papers

  In his essay 'Externalism and Skepticism', John Greco insists that pace all his lip-service to the Sellarsian idea of the 'space of reasons', McDowell is an out and out epistemic externalist. Greco maintains that McDowell's externalist leanings b...