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MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE GIVEN: EXTERNALIST ELEMENTS IN BONJOUR’S INTERNALIST FOUNDATIONALISM.

Korankye, Kobina Oduro
http://orcid.org/0009-0003-3023-7869
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent168420538470892

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2023, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
This thesis will assess whether Laurence BonJour’s foundationalism is a viable internalist theory of epistemic justification. BonJour’s view seems to require a higher order awareness that the content of a basic belief accurately describes what is empirically given. One worry is that an analogue of Sellars’ dilemma will arise with respect to this higher order state. A related concern is that such higher order states may not always be reliable. Where they are not reliable, it is hard to see how the basic belief would be epistemically justified. A similar concern arises with respect to non-basic beliefs. Only beliefs that follow from justified beliefs via objectively truth conducive inferences will be inferentially justified. However, whether or not a given inference is objectively truth conducive is a matter external to the agent. As such, it is difficult to see how a purely internalist view can account for the epistemic justification of non-basic beliefs.
Deborah Smith (Committee Chair)
Robert Trogden (Committee Member)
David Pereplyotchik (Committee Member)
Polycarp Ikuenobe (Committee Member)
58 p.
Epistemology; Philosophy
Foundationalism; Internalism; Externalism; Reliabilism; Laurence BonJour; Ernest Sosa; regress problem; Analytic Philosophy; Analytic Epistemology; The Given; Sellarsian Dilemma; Wilfried Sellars; Justification; Belief; Direct Apprehension; Alvin Goldman; truth-conducive; propositional content; perception; inferential justification'

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  • Korankye, K. O. (2023). MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE GIVEN: EXTERNALIST ELEMENTS IN BONJOUR’S INTERNALIST FOUNDATIONALISM. [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent168420538470892

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Korankye, Kobina. MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE GIVEN: EXTERNALIST ELEMENTS IN BONJOUR’S INTERNALIST FOUNDATIONALISM. 2023. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent168420538470892.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Korankye, Kobina. "MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE GIVEN: EXTERNALIST ELEMENTS IN BONJOUR’S INTERNALIST FOUNDATIONALISM." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent168420538470892

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