Internalism – POSTULAT

Internalist wants to insist that the cognizer ( a person who believes ) possesses the justification for his beliefs. Internalist accounts are called sometimes Cartesian accounts, as they are very demanding to establish belief. For instance, young children can not articulate reasons, so they would not have justified beliefs. As a result, they cannot possess knowledge.

July 4, 2019

BonJour on coherentism

BonJour argues that to have justified belief you need to have good reasons that your belief is true. Otherwise, you are epistemically irresponsible. BonJour rejects basic account of strong foundationalism, which claims that there are self-justified beliefs that do not depend on other beliefs. For instance, I possess the belief that the wall is white. […]

July 2, 2019

Chisholm on knowledge as self-justified beliefs

According to the regress argument, any proposition requires a justification. However, any justification itself requires support. This means that any proposition whatsoever can be infinitely questioned. N (Regress) → C → B → A Chisholm, as an internalist and a foundationalist, claims that there are some foundational propositions that are self-justified. C (Foundation) → B […]

May 14, 2019

Goldman and Dretske on knowledge

Alvin Goldman makes another hypothesis to the traditional account of knowledge for the fact that Smith cannot be said to know P. What makes P true is the fact that Brown is in Barcelona, but this fact has nothing to do with Smith’s believing P. That is, there is no causal connection between the fact […]