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Single Idea 10343

[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge ]

Full Idea

Process reliabilism is sometimes subsumed under the label 'virtue epistemology', so that processes are 'epistemically virtuous' if they lead mostly to true beliefs. The 'intellectual virtues' here are perception, memory or reasoning.

Gist of Idea

Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason

Source

Martin Kusch (Knowledge by Agreement [2002], Ch. 9)

Book Ref

Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.107

A Reaction

I am shocked that 'intellectual virtue' should be hijacked by reliabilists, suggesting that it even applies to a good clock. I like the Aristotelian idea that sound knowledge rests on qualities of character in the knower - including social qualities.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [reliability that is needed for secure knowledge]:

303 Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato]
22760 Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus]
22325 A belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey]
19724 Belief is knowledge if it is true, certain, and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey]
6356 Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]
6875 Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman]
8829 Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman]
8810 If someone rejects good criticism through arrogance, that is irrelevant to whether they have knowledge [Feldman/Conee]
8889 Reliabilists disagree over whether some further requirement is needed to produce knowledge [Bonjour]
3573 Externalist reliability refers to a range of conventional conditions [Williams,M]
2740 A reliability theory of knowledge seems to involve truth as correspondence [Audi,R]
9165 Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes [Field,H]
10343 Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason [Kusch]
19727 Reliabilist knowledge is evidence based belief, with high conditional probability [Comesaņa]