Chisholmian Internalism

Abstract

I argue that the central notion in roderick chisholm's account (in "theory of knowledge" and "foundations of knowing") of warrant or positive epistemic status is that of epistemic duty fulfillment: a belief has warrant for me to the degree that accepting it is apt for fulfilling my epistemic duty. i argue further that this can't be right; aptness for epistemic duty fulfillment may or may not be necessary for warrant, but it is nowhere near sufficient. then i make what i hope is a more satisfactory proposal about the nature of positive epistemic status.