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

Full Idea

The problem for internalists of Doxastic Decision Interval says internal justification must avoid mental change to preserve the justification status, but must also allow enough time to compute the formal relations between beliefs.

Clarification

'Doxastic' means concerned with beliefs

Gist of Idea

Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence

Source

Alvin I. Goldman (Internalism Exposed [1999], §4)

Book Ref

Goldman,Alvin I.: 'Pathways to Knowledge' [OUP 2002], p.13


A Reaction

The word 'compute' implies a rather odd model of assessing coherence, which seems instantaneous for most of us where everyday beliefs are concerned. In real mental life this does not strike me as a problem.


The 24 ideas with the same theme [reasons to favour internalist justifcation]:

Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]
A rational account might be seeing an image of one's belief, like a reflection in a mirror [Plato]
A rational account involves giving an image, or analysis, or giving a differentiating mark [Plato]
Anyone who knows, must know that they know, and even know that they know that they know.. [Spinoza]
To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert]
Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being [Hegel]
Reasons for beliefs are not the same as evidence [Davidson]
We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman]
Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman]
Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman]
A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman]
Epistemic norms are internalised procedural rules for reasoning [Pollock]
For internalists we must actually know that the fact caused the belief [Dancy,J]
Internalists tend to favour coherent justification, but not the coherence theory of truth [Dancy,J]
Internalism about justification implies that there is a right to believe something [Audi,R]
Internalism says if anything external varies, the justifiability of the belief does not vary [Pollock/Cruz]
Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid]
Internalists say the reasons for belief must be available to the subject, and externalists deny this [O'Grady]
Epistemic internalism usually says justification must be accessible by reflection [Pritchard,D]
'Access' internalism says responsibility needs access; weaker 'mentalism' needs mental justification [Kvanvig]
Internalists are much more interested in evidence than externalists are [McGrew]
'Mentalist' internalism seems to miss the main point, if it might not involve an agent's access [Vahid]
Strong access internalism needs actual awareness; weak versions need possibility of access [Vahid]
Maybe we need access to our justification, and also to know why it justifies [Vahid]