Conee, Earl Department of Philosophy University of Rochester NY
Feldman, Richard Department of Philosophy University of Rochester NY
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925372-2
doi:10.1093/0199253722.003.0007
 

Earl Conee
Richard Feldman
Argues that reliability approaches to justification are severely defective. They fail even to assert a necessary and sufficient condition for justification, much less a correct condition, if they do not identify the bearers of reliability. They fail to be credible, if they identify bearers of reliability in a way that gives the theory grossly implausible results. We examine assorted attempts to respond to this difficulty and find none with any promise of success.
Keywords: belief forming processes, generality problem, justification, reliabilism
doi:10.1093/0199253722.003.0007
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Part I General Issues
Part II Critical Discussions
Part III Developments and Applications