Author: Bernecker, Sven

Source: Philosophical Studies, Volume 130, Number 1, July 2006 , pp. 81-104(24)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

This paper argues that Sosa's virtue perspectivism fails to combine satisfactorily internalist and externalist features in a single theory. Internalism and externalism are reconciled at the price of creating a Gettier problem at the level of “reflective” or second-order knowledge. The general lesson to be learned from the critique of virtue perspectivism is that internalism and externalism cannot be combined by bifurcating justification and knowledge into an object-level and a meta-level and assigning externalism and internalism to different levels.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-3235-z

Affiliations: 1: Email: sven.bernecker@manchester.ac.uk

Publication date: 2006-07-01

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