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[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism ]

Full Idea

Typically, internal epistemic conditions are characterised in terms of a reflective access requirement.

Gist of Idea

Epistemic internalism usually says justification must be accessible by reflection

Source

Duncan Pritchard (Epistemological Disjunctivism [2012], 1.§6)

Book Ref

Pritchard,Duncan: 'Epistemological Disjunctivism' [OUP 2012], p.36


A Reaction

If your justification is straightforwardly visual, it is unclear what the difference would be between seeing the thing and having reflective access to the seeing.


The 13 ideas from 'Epistemological Disjunctivism'

Disjunctivism says perceptual justification must be both factual and known by the agent [Pritchard,D]
Epistemic externalism struggles to capture the idea of epistemic responsibility [Pritchard,D]
Metaphysical disjunctivism says normal perceptions and hallucinations are different experiences [Pritchard,D]
Epistemic internalism usually says justification must be accessible by reflection [Pritchard,D]
We can have evidence for seeing a zebra, but no evidence for what is entailed by that [Pritchard,D]
Favouring: an entailment will give better support for the first belief than reason to deny the second [Pritchard,D]
We assess error against background knowledge, but that is just what radical scepticism challenges [Pritchard,D]
Maybe knowledge just needs relevant discriminations among contrasting cases [Pritchard,D]
An improbable lottery win can occur in a nearby possible world [Pritchard,D]
Moore begs the question, or just offers another view, or uses 'know' wrongly [Pritchard,D, by PG]
My modus ponens might be your modus tollens [Pritchard,D]
Externalism is better than internalism in dealing with radical scepticism [Pritchard,D]
Radical scepticism is merely raised, and is not a response to worrying evidence [Pritchard,D]