epistemology ⁽³⁷⁾

Keith Lehrer, in his Theory of Knowledge, cautions against the sort of “commonsense” thinking prevalent among advocates of externalism, which is “The view that mental events and acts are essentially dependent on the world external to the mind, in opposition to the Cartesian separation of mental and physical worlds” (Oxford Living Dictionaries: English online, under word externalism). Should the pious heed his warning? According to Lehrer, then, reliance on commonsense notions to…