What bothers people about reliabilism as a theory of justified belief? It has yet to be
formulated adequately, but most philosophical theories have that problem. People seem to …

According to a simple version of the reliability theory of epistemic justification, a belief is
justified if and only if the process leading to that belief is reliable. 1 The idea behind this …

Reliabilists hold that a belief is doxastically justified if and only if it is caused by a reliable
process. But since such a process is one that tends to produce a high ratio of true to false …

Theories of epistemic justification and of knowledge in terms of reliability have been
prominent lately. The way it typically goes is that justification of belief is explained in terms of …

An increasing number of epistmeologists claim that having beliefs which are reliable is a
prerequisite of having epistemically rational beliefs. Alvin Goldman, for instance, defends a …

Kxnowledge, as Plato was the first to point out, is more valuable than mere true belief.'Any
account of knowledge that failed to make room for this common-sense observa tion would …

I ne of the problems with reliabilism is that it does not explain what makes Othe food of
knowledge greater than the good of true belief. Previously I have given this objection only to …

Reliabilism has come under recent attack for its alleged inability to account for the value we
typically ascribe to knowledge. It is charged that a reliably‐produced true belief has no more …

One of the main goals of epistemologists is to provide a substantive and explanatory
account of the conditions under which a belief has some desirable epistemic status …

One of the most important developments in the theory of knowledge during the past two
decades has been a shift in emphasis to concern with issues of the reliability of various …