Reliabilism and Demon World Victims

Tópicos 44:35-82 (2013)
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This paper defends reliabilism against the classic demon world victim thought experiment. In doing so, I underscore two of its key alleged intuitions. I then articulate a host of varied responses open to the reliabilist, arguing that these readily available responses provide the reliabilist with a way to either accommodate or reject these initial intuitions about the demon world victim thought experiment, and in a way consistent with reliabilism. Thus, I conclude that the demon world thought experiment does not undercut reliability as the hallmark of epistemic justification.

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reprint Mulnix, Jennifer Wilson (2013) "Reliabilism and Demon World Victims". Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 44():35-82

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Jennifer Mulnix
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