American philosopher who developed one of the most systematic internalist epistemologies and defended agent causation — the view that persons are irreducible causes distinct from event causation — in the theory of free will.
Epistemic internalism: justification depends entirely on states internal to the subject; the given in experience provides foundations. Agent causation: free action requires a special kind of causation where the agent (not merely events in the agent) is the cause of the action — a new category of causation irreducible to event causation.
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