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Three kinds of reliabilism
HOFMANN, Frank
2013In Philosophical Explorations, 16 (1), p. 59-80
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Keywords :
reliabilism; justification; reasons
Abstract :
[en] I distinguish between three kinds of reliabilism for epistemic justification, namely, pure reliabilism, evidential reliabilism, and reasons reliabilism, and I argue for reasons reliabilism. Pure reliabilism and evidential reliabilism are plagued, most importantly, by the generality problem, and they cannot deal adequately with defeater phenomena. One can avoid these problems only by jettisoning the idea of process reliability. The truth connection – which is essential for any kind of reliabilism – has to be provided in an altogether different way, namely, by means of facts in the world which serve as objective reasons (or evidence). So, as reasons reliabilism says, a justified belief has to be anchored in an objective reason which speaks in favor of its truth. Only in this way can intuitions about defeaters be preserved and explained. And reasons reliabilism can avoid the generality problem.
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
HOFMANN, Frank ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Language :
English
Title :
Three kinds of reliabilism
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Philosophical Explorations
ISSN :
1386-9795
Publisher :
Routledge
Volume :
16
Issue :
1
Pages :
59-80
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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