‘Epistemic Internalism, Content Externalism and the Subjective/Objective Justification Distinction’, in APQ, by Adam Carter and Orestis Palermos

October 25, 2014 in New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Adam Carter and Orestis Palermos: ‘Epistemic Internalism, Content Externalism and the Subjective/Objective Justification Distinction’, in the American Philosophical Quarterly.

Abstract: We consider two arguments against the compatibility of epistemic internalism and content externalism. Both arguments are shown to fail because they equivocate on the concept of justification involved in their premises. To highlight the crux of the involved equivocation, we introduce the distinction between subjective and objective justification, which can be independently motivated on the basis of a wide range of thought experiments to be found in the mainstream literature on epistemology. The subjective/objective justification distinction is also ideally suited for providing new insights with respect to central issues within epistemology, including the internalism/externalism debate and the New Evil Demon intuition.

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Epistemic Internalism, Content Externalism and the Subjective/Objective Justification Distinction