Why reliabilism does not permit easy knowledge |
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Authors: | Kelly Becker |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2140, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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Abstract: | Reliabilism furnishes an account of basic knowledge that circumvents the problem of the given. However, reliabilism and other epistemological theories that countenance basic knowledge have been criticized for permitting all-too-easy higher-level knowledge. In this paper, I describe the problem of easy knowledge, look briefly at proposed solutions, and then develop my own. I argue that the easy knowledge problem, as it applies to reliabilism, hinges on a false and too crude understanding of ‘reliable’. With a more plausible conception of ‘reliable’, a simple and elegant solution emerges. |
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