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Single Idea 17723

[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification ]

Full Idea

I propose that knowledge is true belief which can be well explained .....just by citing the proposition believed.

Gist of Idea

Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed

Source

Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], 3.1)

Book Ref

Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.74


A Reaction

I don't find this appealing, and my reservation about Jenkins's book is her reliabilist, externalist epistemology. I would add an internalist coherentist epistemology to her very nice theory. 'I believe there are fairies at the bottom of my garden'?


The 20 ideas with the same theme [general issues about external justification]:

For Locke knowledge relates to objects, not to propositions [Locke, by Rorty]
Doubts should be satisfied by some external permanency upon which thinking has no effect [Peirce]
Externalism says knowledge involves a natural relation between the belief state and what makes it true [Armstrong]
In the past people had a reason not to smoke, but didn't realise it [Searle]
Norm Externalism says norms must be internal, but their selection is partly external [Pollock]
Externalists tend to take a third-person point of view of epistemology [Pollock]
Externalist theories of justification don't require believers to have reasons for their beliefs [Bonjour]
Extreme externalism says no more justification is required than the truth of the belief [Bonjour]
Externalism could even make belief unnecessary (e.g. in animals) [Dancy,J]
Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]
Externalism does not require knowing that you know [Williams,M]
Externalism ignores the social aspect of knowledge [Williams,M]
Consistent accurate prediction looks like knowledge without justified belief [Audi,R]
Is knowledge just a state of mind, or does it also involve the existence of external things? [Crane]
Externalism comes as 'probabilism' (probability of truth) and 'reliabilism' (probability of good cognitive process) [Pollock/Cruz]
Justification is normative, so it can't be reduced to cognitive psychology [Bernecker/Dretske]
Externalist accounts of knowledge do not require the traditional sort of justification [Kornblith]
Surely ALL truths are externally justified, by the facts? [Cross,A]
Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed [Jenkins]
Externalism may imply that identical mental states might go with different justifications [Vahid]