Is Justification Internal ?

• Internalism about justification is a very strong claim. Internalists hold that justification is entirely an internal matter. Even a position where justification is predominantly but not fully internal counts as externalist. • Epistemic justification is only one of many epistemic statuses that one can be an internalist or externalist about. Beliefs can be justified, rational, accurate, responsible, coherent, reasonable, count as knowledge, and so on. One can be an internalist about justification and still be an externalist about knowledge. • Different strands of internalism will depend on which factors are considered internal to S’s perspective – e.g., factors to which S has privileged access, particular occurrent mental states, causal relations between mental states, and so on.