Epistemic Planning, Epistemic Internalism, and Luminosity

In this chapter, a “doxastic planning model” of epistemic evaluation is employed to argue for a form of epistemic internalism. In doing so, a response is first given to Schoenfield’s recent argument against the author’s previous attempt to develop such an argument. Various ways in which that argument might be understood are distinguished, and it is discussed how both internalists and externalists might make use of the ideas within it. It is then argued that, despite these complexities, the doxastic planning model continues to support a modest form of epistemic internalism. The chapter concludes by showing that, far from conflicting with “anti-luminosity” arguments in epistemology, this form of internalism is best understood as a natural reaction to these arguments.