Noûs 46 (3):449-482 (2012)
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What is the best account of process reliabilism about epistemic justification, especially epistemic entitlement? I argue that entitlement consists in the normal functioning (proper operation) of the belief-forming process when the process has forming true beliefs reliably as an etiological function. Etiological functions involve consequence explanation: a belief-forming process has forming true beliefs reliably as a function just in case forming-true beliefs reliably partly explains the persistence of the process. This account paves the way for avoiding standard objections to process reliabilism and situations epistemic entitlement within a normative framework of functions and functional norms.
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| Keywords | Reliabilism Epistemic Justification Proper Function Tyler Burge Alvin Goldman Ruth Millikan Larry Wright Function Entitlement New Evil Demon Problem |
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| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00815.x |
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