WHY DOES JUSTIFICATION MATTER?

Author: WEINER, MATTHEW

Source: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2005 , pp. 422-444(23)

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Abstract:

It has been claimed that justification, conceived traditionally in an internalist fashion, is not an epistemologically important property. I argue for the importance of a conception of justification that is completely dependent on the subject's experience, using an analogy to advice. The epistemological importance of a property depends on two desiderata: the extent to which it guarantees the epistemic goal of attaining truth and avoiding falsehood, and the extent to which it depends only on the information available to the believer. The traditional intermalist notion of justification completely satisfies the second desideratum and largely satisfies the first.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00235.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy Texas Tech University

Publication date: 2005-09-01