Any view claiming that a certain phenomenon can, or must, be analyzed in terms belonging within a certain sphere. In particular, internalism applies to certain analyses of mental notions such as belief and knowledge.
An internalist analysis of believing, thinking of something, and so on, limits itself entirely to what is going on inside the believer’s head; only on those terms could a theory like the identity theory of mind be true (though of course internalists need not hold it).
An internalist view of knowledge says that for a belief to count as knowledge one must at least be aware of and/or able to present an adequate justification for it; it is not enough that one merely stand in certain causal relations to the fact in question.
Various distinctions can be made between strong and weak (and so on) versions of internalism.
Also see: externalism
Source:
J Dancy, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (1985)
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- 2.1 Motivational Internalism (Oxford Moral Theory)
- 2.2 Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
- 2.3 Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues
- 2.4 The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism–Externalism
- 2.5 Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism
- 2.6 Intellectual Assurance: Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism
- 2.7 Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology
- 2.8 Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism (Advances in Consciousness Research)
- 2.9 Internal Affairs - Making Room for Psychosemantic Internalism
- 2.10 Consciousness and Freedom: The Inseparability of Thinking and Doing
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