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Is Mīmāṃsā Epistemology Externalist?
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 73, Number 4, October 2023
- pp. 958-979
- 10.1353/pew.2023.a909972
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Abstract:
This essay argues that whereas Mīmāṃsaka commentator Uṃvekabhaṭṭa puts forth an externalist interpretation of svataḥ prāmāṇya, the later interpretation thereof due to Pārthasārathimiśra is distinctly internalist in flavor. Specifically, it is argued that Pārthasārathimiśra's position can most aptly be construed as a form of phenomenal conservatism à la Michael Huemer, and thus that it is consistent with a form of internalism called Appearance Internalism.