Justification without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism

Justification without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-266

  Bergmann, Michael ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Defeater; Deontology; Epistemic circularity; Epistemology; Externalism; Internalism; Justification; Mentalism; Proper function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922017678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199275742.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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