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    It is not the case that Reliabilism is a form of externalism

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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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    • 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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