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Elusive externalism

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Epistemologists have recently noted a tension between (i) denying access internalism, and (ii) maintaining that rational agents cannot be epistemically akratic, believing claims akin to ‘p, but I shouldn’t believe p’. I bring out the tension, and develop a new way to resolve it. The basic strategy is to say that access internalism is false, but that counterexamples to it are ‘elusive’ in a way that prevents rational agents from suspecting that they themselves are counterexamples to the intern...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1093/mind/fzx015

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Humanities Division
Department:
Philosophy
Oxford college:
Magdalen College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Mind Journal website
Volume:
128
Issue:
510
Pages:
397-427
Publication date:
2017-11-04
Acceptance date:
2017-08-04
DOI:
EISSN:
1460-2113
ISSN:
0026-4423
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:974680
UUID:
uuid:2473a99c-3f26-4735-84ca-cd5aa8acc31a
Local pid:
pubs:974680
Source identifiers:
974680
Deposit date:
2019-02-19

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