Reason and Proper Function: A Response to Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga, in Warrant: The Current Debate, notes that

there is a long history in Anglo-American epistemology that

traces back to the classical internalist views of Rene Descartes

and John Locke. Internalism is the view that an individual

has special access to that quantity or quality that makes true

belief into knowledge. This internalism, according to Plantinga,

is motivated by deontology – or epistemic duty fulfillment.

Closely connected with epistemic deontology is justification.

Justific...