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    Reliabilism is a form of externalism — Carmelics
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    Reliabilism is a form of externalism

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    • 1.Reliabilism requires a reliable mechanism for belief formation
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    • 2.Reliabilism does not require that the epistemic agent be aware of or have evidence of the mechanism's reliability
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    • 1.Earl Conee and Richard Feldman argue that reliabilism can be reformulated so that reliability supervenes on internally accessible mental states (mentalist reliabilism).
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    • 2.A view that grounds justification solely in internal mental states satisfies the core internalist constraint, even if it retains a reliability condition.
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    • 3.Therefore, the reliability condition alone does not entail externalism, since what counts as external or internal depends on the supervenience base, not the reliability criterion itself.
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    • 1.Laurence BonJour's internalist reliabilism holds that agents must have reflective access to the reliability of their belief-forming processes.
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    • 2.If internalist reliabilism is coherent, reliabilism as such is not constitutively externalist but admits of internalist formulations.
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    There has also been some discussion of the concept of knowledge in terms of both reliability and fallibility. Let us begin with the former. Succinctly put, reliabilism holds that a belief is knowledge if it is true and if it was produced, or is sustained, by a reliable process that yields mostly true beliefs. Reliabilist theories of knowledge require a reliable mechanism for belief formation, but do not require that the epistemic agent be aware or have evidence of the mechanism’s reliability. Fo
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