Wright’s Competing Epistemic Values

In Crispin Wright’s diagnosis, internalists and externalists about epistemic justification disagree about whether the NEDS victim has justified perceptual beliefs because they disagree more fundamentally about the relative importance of two kinds of epistemic values. The externalist gives greater weight to values of the epistemic product, such as truth or knowledge, but the internalist favors values of epistemic agency (“doxastic management”), such as rationality or coherent belief. Where Wright seems to see one disagreement, I see two disagreements that are not fully separated in verdicts about epistemic justification in NEDS.