Week 10 讨论课

Reliabilism and evidentialism are two prominent theories of epistemic justification, which is the property that distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief. Reliabilism focuses on the reliability of the process by which a belief is formed, arguing that a belief is justified if it is produced by a reliable cognitive process, meaning a process that tends to generate true beliefs. Evidentialism, on the other hand, emphasizes the evidence that supports a belief, claiming that a belief is justified if it is based on adequate evidence, meaning evidence that makes the belief more likely to be true than not. While reliabilism looks at the causal history of a belief, evidentialism focuses on the reasons or evidence that support the belief. Both theories attempt to provide an account of what makes a belief justified and therefore a potential candidate for knowledge.