Single Idea 2747

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification]

Full Idea

Causal accounts of justification do not allow for the possibility that a false belief may still be justified.

Gist of Idea

Causal theories don't allow for errors in justification

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 2.4)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.35


A Reaction

Good. If you switch to what you only think is the cause of your belief, you have gone internalist and ruined the party. You can't deny that a falsehood can be justified, or justification is vacuous.