Philosophical Review 114 (1):33-61 (2005)
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The paper deals with a version of the principle that a belief source can be a knowledge source only if the subject knows that it is reliable. I argue that the principle can be saved from the main objections that motivate its widespread rejection: the claim that it leads to skepticism, the claim that it forces us to accept counterintuitive knowledge ascriptions and the claim that it is incompatible with reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I argue that naturalist epistemologists should reject these claims. I introduce my treatment of the principle by considering the analogous situation posed by the closure principle.
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Keywords | Easy knowledge Skepticism Reliabilism |
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DOI | 10.1215/00318108-114-1-33 |
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