PhD in Philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
During the development of epistemological matters and explanation of various intellectual mechanisms in Europe, the epistemological efforts on intellectuality and epistemic justification can be seen in the Islamic world, too. Usulies ‘belief in internalism and Akhbaries’ acceptance of externalism (despite there was not any relation between Islamic tradition and western philosophy) or arguing on the various ways of solving gettier problem are some examples of these efforts. The theory of essential production that is a view between rationalism and empiricism is one of the most famous (or maybe the best) epistemic theories appealed to for solving induction problem in the Islamic world, at the same time that lengthy debates about solving the problem of induction was offered in the west. Our aim in this paper is proposing the idea of the possibility of using epistemological sophistications of Islamic and western traditions in their special epistemic investigations. By noting that the epistemic implications of internalism and externalism is explored in more details in the west, we can use these implications for improvement of mechanisms of derivating divine orders from their reasons. On the other hand, evoking new structures of intellectuality which suggested in Islamic tradition can lead to reconsideration of current categorizations of justification structures of epistemology that are suggested by western epistemologies.