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reliabilist account
Also known as: reliabilists, reliabilist account, reliabilist
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Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 3 facts
claimReliabilists hold that a belief is justified if and only if it results from a cognitive origin that is reliable, meaning an origin that tends to produce true beliefs and properly probabilifies the belief.
claimReliabilists reject access internalism because they argue that if the justification of beliefs is determined by the reliability of belief sources, justification is not always recognizable upon reflection.
claimReliabilism asserts that the justification of beliefs is a function of the reliability of belief sources, such as memorial, perceptual, and introspective states and processes, rather than evidence.
Naturalistic Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 3 facts
claimAlvin Goldman's account of a priori knowledge is based on his reliabilist account of epistemic justification and the idea that a priori knowledge is based on processes of 'pure thought' that operate independently of experience or perception.
claimAlvin Goldman's approach to epistemic justification is reliabilist and grounded in science, asserting that justification is at least partly determined by beliefs being produced by reliable cognitive processes.
claimPhilip Kitcher and Alvin Goldman argue that social structures within science can be evaluated using reliabilist terms to determine how effectively those structures promote the production of true theories over false ones.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 2 facts
claimSome epistemologists argue that testimonial justification cannot be explained in a unified way, leading to the development of hybrid views that combine components of Reductionist, Reliabilist, and Inheritance accounts.
claimJennifer Lackey defends a reliabilist account of group testimony, which posits that an individual's belief is justified by the reliability or truth-conduciveness of a group's statement that a proposition is true.
Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 5, 2001 1 fact
claimCausal and reliabilist accounts of epistemic justification are distinct from evidentialist accounts.
Epistemic Justification – Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimMany reliabilists struggle to provide a reliabilist-centric explanation for why an introspectively identical twin in a demon world would not have beliefs that are justified for the original person, without conceding too much to internalism.
Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimReliabilists interpret changes in cognitive behavior caused by situational differences as a drop in reliable functioning.