Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A partizan of the theory of the external origin of certain forms of skin-disease.

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  • adjective epistemology Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief
  • noun One who adheres to externalist beliefs

Etymologies

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external +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • So your question really only addresses "externalist" flavors of ID, not EAM and the like.

    Behe Responds 2007

  • Any evaluation of whether Actual State reasons internalism is simpler, more elegant, or explanatorily more powerful than any possible externalist view will have to turn on an evaluation of this kind of externalist explanatory strategy.

    Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External Finlay, Stephen 2008

  • Of course, "externalist" explanations for the history of ideas cannot constitute the whole story.

    Joe Salerno on The Austrian Movement - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • However, as long as the first phase of the learning process is understood to be non-inferential, subjectivism can be made compatible with an "externalist" epistemology that allows for criticism of belief changes in terms the reliability of the causal processes that generate them.

    Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003

  • Of course, you can be an internalist or externalist at different altitudes of development, and historically these have changed over time, as we've already seen.

    Archive 2009-02-23 2009

  • You guessed it: Right is still internalist, and Left is still externalist.

    Archive 2009-02-23 2009

  • I imagine you wouldn't count among the externalist Libertarians ...

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – April – 15 2009

  • And on the other hand, isn't it a severe distortion of our actual inferential practice to view the process of reasoning as taking place in a "black box," as the externalist view in effect invites us to do?

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • You guessed it: Right is still internalist, and Left is still externalist.

    INTEGRAL POLITIC 2009

  • Of course, you can be an internalist or externalist at different altitudes of development, and historically these have changed over time, as we've already seen.

    INTEGRAL POLITIC 2009

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