Internalism and Externalism - Epistemology Video 13

This is video 13 in an introductory course on epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. We discuss internalism and externalism, where internalism is defined as the dual claims that (1) knowledge requires justification, and (2) justification depends only on 'internal' factors, that is factors within the subject's awareness/conscious access. Its opposite is externalism. We look at some examples that have been used to argue in favour of either of these views.
Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. You can follow him on mastodon: @[e-mail].
This video is part of a lecture series originally recorded for my students during the 2023/2024 spring semester. The entire playlist is here: • Course in Epistemology

[@andremestre7443]

Really nice and informative. Thank you for making these videos available for everyone on YT!

[@alannolan3514]

wonderfu. thank you - it's Centre of mass by the way

[@ValtteriAurela]

This is probably dealt with in the later videos but I feel like many examples and problems so far could have been fixed by thinking about the certainties of beliefs instead of knowledge. Having knowledge be a binary property seems to make it almost useless. In my opinion we can't ever

[@bensimpson2845]

Thank you for these videos, they are great for someone like myself who is self studying after an intro course when I was at University. For this debate, I wonder what it would mean to have the answer given to us (from the future, or from an all knowing sage). I'm not even sure what form an answer would be, in the way that if we were to be given a theory of quantum gravity we could use it to make better predictions or new technology.

[@GottfriedLeibnizYT]

24:34

[@JamesColeman1]

It’s turtles all the way down