• DOI:10.1007/S10670-017-9967-2
Corpus ID: 125880197

Method Coherence and Epistemic Circularity

@article{Fleisher2019MethodCA,
  title={Method Coherence and Epistemic Circularity},
  author={Will Fleisher},
  journal={Erkenntnis},
  year={2019},
  volume={84},
  pages={455-480}
}

• Will Fleisher
• Published 2019
• Computer Science
• Erkenntnis

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Reliabilism is an intuitive and attractive view about epistemic justification. However, it has many well-known problems. I offer a novel condition on reliabilist theories of justification. This method coherence condition requires that a method be appropriately tested by appeal to a subject’s other belief-forming methods. Adding this condition to reliabilism provides a solution to epistemic circularity worries, including the bootstrapping problem.