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Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability?
Process reliabilist accounts claim that a belief is justified when it is the result of a reliable belief-forming process. Yet over what range of possible token processes is this reliability calculated? I argue against the idea that all possible token processes (in the actual world, or some other sub...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9811052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00645-4 |
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description | Process reliabilist accounts claim that a belief is justified when it is the result of a reliable belief-forming process. Yet over what range of possible token processes is this reliability calculated? I argue against the idea that all possible token processes (in the actual world, or some other subset of possible worlds) are to be considered using the case of a user acquiring beliefs based on the output of an AI system, which is typically reliable for a substantial local range but unreliable when all possible inputs are considered. I show that existing solutions to the generality problem imply that these cases cannot be solved by a more fine-grained typing of the belief-forming process. Instead, I suggest that reliability is evaluated over a range restricted by the content of the actual belief and by the similarity of the input to the actual input. |
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spelling | pubmed-98110522023-01-04 Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? Buijsman, Stefan Erkenntnis Original Research Process reliabilist accounts claim that a belief is justified when it is the result of a reliable belief-forming process. Yet over what range of possible token processes is this reliability calculated? I argue against the idea that all possible token processes (in the actual world, or some other subset of possible worlds) are to be considered using the case of a user acquiring beliefs based on the output of an AI system, which is typically reliable for a substantial local range but unreliable when all possible inputs are considered. I show that existing solutions to the generality problem imply that these cases cannot be solved by a more fine-grained typing of the belief-forming process. Instead, I suggest that reliability is evaluated over a range restricted by the content of the actual belief and by the similarity of the input to the actual input. Springer Netherlands 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9811052/ /pubmed/36620192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00645-4 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Buijsman, Stefan Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title | Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title_full | Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title_fullStr | Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title_full_unstemmed | Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title_short | Over What Range Should Reliabilists Measure Reliability? |
title_sort | over what range should reliabilists measure reliability? |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9811052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00645-4 |
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