PHIL 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alvin Goldman, Reliabilism, Mathematical Induction
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Another choice point in epistemology, besides the one between falliblism and infallibilism, is one between internalism and externalism. These are most primarily views about justification, not about knowledge. By contrast, externalists think that external features can make a difference for justification as well. Internalists think that if things seem just the same from the inside", they must be the same with respect to justification; externalists deny this. One famous version of externalism is reliabilism, developed influentially by. Internalist focuses on first person"s perspective: everything you can know for justification could be known merely from the inside. Externalism believes that a justified belief depends on the external world. Reliabilism is a view that a justified belief depends on a reliable mechanism. Descartes"s approach and goldman"s are each foundationalist, but goldman"s differs in important ways from the cartesian version we"ve studied so far. The basic idea is that one breaks a definition into two components a base case and a recursion clause.
