Reliability and Two Kinds of Epistemic Justification
In Newton Garver & Peter H. Hare (eds.),
Naturalism and rationality. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 159-170 (
1986)
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Abstract
In this paper, I argue that there are two kinds of epistemic justification: one is objective and the other, subjective. Internalists are interested in the subjective variety of justification. Externalists are interested in the objective notion of justification. A paper by Stewart Cohen fails to distinguish these two varieties of epistemic justification and, as a result, criticizes externalists for failing to address the internalist, subjective notion of epistemic justification. But, since that notion is not the one that externallists care about, I argue that his evil demon example fails to be a counterexample against externalists.