Internalism empowered: how to bolster a theory of justification with a direct realist theory of awareness

The Problem of Easy Justification

“…Moore who toyed with the idea that sense data might be mind-independent. Or consider the new wave of direct realists like Bayer (2012), Brewer (2002) and (2013), and Hobson (forthcoming) who hold that one might be directly acquainted with mind-independent physical objects! Or consider that Russell famously thought that one could be acquainted with mind-independent universals.…”