Philosophy 2500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basic Belief, Clairvoyance, Gettier Problem
3 Oct 2018
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Externalism justi ed true belief internalism. External world state of affairs that makes p true: accepting deductive closure, trying to challenge the need for completeness for beliefs, arguments against; !1: not justi ed because we could be controlled by an evil demon, or not and still. Friday, march 10, 2017 experience the same thing. Leads to skepticism > because how do you know that it is reliable otherwise it is a hypothetical. Justi ed epistemic have to incorporate: (1) truth and reason are very important, (2) normative responsibility have to be responsible. Basic belief > (1) non-inferential but requires a feature: to suggest that a belief is basic depends on further feature (empirical, (2) intuitions immediate apprehensions. Internalism: need cognitive awareness concerning why that belief is true, need to know that you know/ why you know, must be aware, arguments against; (1) unsophisticated epistemic subjects: dogs, young children, dogs can defrinciate between a burglar and a friend.
