internalism

English

Etymology

internal +‎ -ism

Noun

internalism (countable and uncountable, plural internalisms)

1. The doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
   • 2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:

     In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism.

Related terms

• internalist
• externalism