Open AccessThe necessity of externalist justification
Author(s) -
Arne Markusović
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
radovi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2806-8432
pISSN - 0352-6798
DOI - 10.15291/radovifpsp.2622
Subject(s) - externalism , internalism and externalism , skepticism , epistemology , philosophy , position (finance) , economics , finance
INTERNALISM as a theory of justified belief cannot solve the pro- blems of epistemological regress and scepticism. The privileged status strategy leads us either to external ism or to the position according to which all of our beliefs are equally justified or unjustified.If all of our beliefs are equally unjustified we are back to scepticism, and if all of them are equally justified then the privileged status strategy is tenable no more. The only plausible solution seems to be the externalist In- terpretation of justification according to which justification is a matter of external factors not necessarilly accessible to the believer. Among externa- list theories of justification congnitive process reliabilism seems to be the most promising.