“Internalism intending to Justification and Externalism to episteme": The Achievement of Audi's Dualistic Approach to Epistemology

Subject Areas : Epistemological researches

Mohsen Shams ¹ , Amirhossein Mansouri Nouri ² , abdollah salavati ³ , ٍEinollah Khademi ⁴

1 - P.h.d student/ Shahid Rajaei Teacher Training University
2 - P.h.d student/ Shahid Rajaei Teacher Training University
3 - Associate professor of Islamic sciences department, Shahid Rajaee teacher training university
4 - Professor of University of Shahid Rajaee

Received: 2020-09-13 Accepted : 2020-11-29 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: "Internalism", "Externalism", "Accessing", " Justification", "Knowledge",

Abstract :

During the past fifty years the internalism/externalism dichotomy in regard with justification and knowledge has been controversial, and inclination toward either of them has been considered as epistemological view of contemporary epistemologists. In opposition to externalism, internalism assumed all factors of justification and knowledge are internal affairs. Robert Audi has a combinatory theory: "internalism about Justification and externalism about Knowledge". The central problem under investigation in this paper is the possibility and origins of Audi's view and how it can be distinguished from the others. Like Gattier, Audi takes a critical position against the tripartite definition of knowledge, discussing the differences between the foundations of knowledge vs. justification, and argued that knowledge, due to its dependence on truth, is not accessible like justification. The combinatory of the theory and its elaboration in regard with justification and knowledge is based on both Audi's dualistic view toward epistemology and his belief in the difference of the accessibility of two parallels in epistemology i.e. justification and knowledge. He has regarded the justification as an internal and the episteme as external. Audi’s doctrine is the combined and detailed one on the nature of justification and episteme.  

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