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DISPOSITIONAL RELIABILISM AND ITS MERITS (pages 75-97)

Balder Edmund Ask ZAAR ABSTRACT: In this article I discuss two counterexamples (the New Evil Demon Problem and Norman’s Clairvoyance) to reliabilism and a potential solution: dispositional reliabilism. The latter is a recent addition to the many already-existing varieties of reliabilism and faces some serious problems of its own. I argue here that these problems are surmountable. The resulting central …

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RELIABILISTS SHOULD STILL FEAR THE DEMON (pages 193-202)

B.J.C. MADISON ABSTRACT: In its most basic form, Simple Reliabilism states that: a belief is justified iff it is formed as the result of a reliable belief-forming process. But so-called New Evil Demon (NED) cases have been given as counterexamples. A common response has been to complicate reliabilism from its simplest form to accommodate the basic reliabilist position, while at …

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