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Scepticism and Reliable Belief (Hardcover)
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Reliabilist accounts of knowledge are widely seen as having the
resources for blocking sceptical arguments, since these arguments
appear to rely on assumptions about the nature of knowledge that
are rendered illegitimate by reliabilist accounts. In Scepticism
and Reliable Belief Jose L. Zalabardo assesses the main arguments
against the possibility of knowledge, and challenges their
consensus. He articulates and defends a reliabilist theory of
knowledge that belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition.
Zalabardo's main analytic tool in the account of knowledge he
provides is the theory of probability: he analyses both truth
tracking and evidence in these terms, and argues that this account
of knowledge has the resources for blocking the main standard lines
of sceptical reasoning--including the regress argument, arguments
based on sceptical hypotheses, and the problem of the criterion.
But although Zalabardo's theory can be used to refute the standard
lines of sceptical reasoning, there is a sceptical argument against
which his account offers no defence, as it does not rely on any
assumptions that he renders illegitimate. According to this
argument, we might have considerable success in the enterprise of
forming true beliefs: if this is so, we have knowledge of the
world. However, we cannot know that we are successful, even if we
are. Beliefs to this effect cannot be knowledge on Zalabardo's
reliabilist account, since these beliefs do not track the truth and
we cannot obtain adequate evidence in their support. Zalabardo ends
with the suggestion that the problem might have a metaphysical
solution: although the sceptical argument may make no illegitimate
epistemological assumptions, it does rest on a questionable account
of the nature of cognition."
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