Lehrer 's Critique of Externalism

Naturalism: True Belief together with a natural history = knowledge

Advantages of Externalism

End of regress

Reply to sceptic

Relevant alternatives

Rejection deductive closure

Rejecting Justification

What is the Relation?

Causality?

General truths

Non-causal entities

Truth Tracking Beliefs

Solves Causal Problems

Mr. Truetemp

"One must have someway of knowing that the information is

correct." (p.313)

"A necessary normative condition of a person knowing that p is that it be more reasonable for her to accept p than to accept the denial of p on the basis of her information. This condition implies the need for a justification condition of the sort we have proposed." (p.313)

Reliabilism not a Theory of Justification

The Evil Demon Objection (personal justification)

Justification not Independent of Reliabilism

Absentminded Demon (justification required for knowledge)

"...the needed form of justification depends on the appropriate match between what one accepts about how one is related to the world and what is actually the case." (p.315)

Mr Optimistic

Moral: Nothing about justification guarantees knowledge (?)

The Causal Fallacy

Mr. Raco

Reasons for belief may differ from reasons the belief is justified.

Evidence is always what explains justification.