PHIL 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thought Experiment, Fallibilism, Evil Demon
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Phil 349: reliabilism: reliabilism, reliabilism is a version of foundationalism. (foundationalism, remember, is the view that some justified beliefs are foundational standing in need of no further justification and all other justified beliefs must be supported by some other justified beliefs that ultimately depend on foundations. Belief b is justified if and only if: b is produced by an unconditionally reliable process, or, b is produced by a conditionally reliable process whose inputs are justified, an unconditionally reliable process is on that tends to produce true beliefs rather than false ones. (think of ordinary cases of perception. This is a strategy jennifer nagel has pursued in a couple of papers, and in her talk last week. : externalism review, i think that this line of reasoning would be a mistake: internalist elements and externalist elements both seem to be relevant, so a kind of hybrid, involving internalism and externalism must be the correct view.
