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Everything about Reliabilism
Theory that beliefs are justified when from reliable processes
Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced as a theory both of justification and of knowledge. Process reliabilism has been used as an argument against philosophical skepticism, such as the brain in a vat thought experiment. Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ReliabilismA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: From understanding to justifying: Computational reliabilism for AI-based forensic evidence evaluationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Reliability and availability of cloud computingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Generality Problem for ReliabilismCited 211 times
- Go sideways: Virtue epistemologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Justification (epistemology)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Generality Problem for Reliabilism
Reliabilism Leveled
Grounds for Trust: Essential Epistemic Opacity and Computational Reliabilism
Evidentialist Reliabilism
A Rationale for Reliabilism
Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism
RELIABILISM, VERITISM, AND EPISTEMIC CONSEQUENTIALISM
Internalist Reliabilism
🆕 Influential since 2022
From understanding to justifying: Computational reliabilism for AI-based forensic evidence evaluation
Fortifying Trust: Can Computational Reliabilism Overcome Adversarial Attacks?
A knowledge first virtue reliabilism of Christoph Kelp
Internalist reliabilism in statistics and machine learning: thoughts on Jun Otsuka’s Thinking about Statistics
The generality problem for process reliabilism, the sensitivity theory and the safety theory
📚 Books worth reading
Reliability and availability of cloud computingEric Bauer · 2012- 📕Good ThinkingChristoph Kelp · 2018
- 📕Knowledge TransmissionWright, Stephen · 2018
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