Externalism, Skepticism, and Knowledge: An Argument Against Internalism

Authors

James K. Beilby, Bethel UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Debate between internalists and externalists hinge not only on different construals of justification and warrant, but also on different construals of the nature of the skeptical challenge, different intuitions regarding what constitutes an adequate answer to the skeptic, and, most fundamentally, tbe purpose for which theories of knowledge are articulated. In this paper, I defend extemalist accounts of justification, arguing both that appropriately nuanced versions of externalism avoid the most pressing objections raised by internalists and that internalism is·either conceptully flawed or fares no better than externalism.

Department(s)

Biblical and Theological Studies

Publication Title

Philosophia Christi

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

75

Last Page

86

Publication Date

2008

DOI

10.5840/pc20081015

ISSN

1529-1634

E-ISSN

2640-2580

Recommended Citation

Beilby, James K., "Externalism, Skepticism, and Knowledge: An Argument Against Internalism" (2008). Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Works. 47.
https://spark.bethel.edu/bible-theology-faculty/47