Abstract

MULNIX, Jennifer Wilson. Reliabilism and Demon World Victims. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2013, n.44, pp.35-82. ISSN 0188-6649.

This paper defends reliabilism against the classic demon world victim thought experiment. In doing so, I underscore two of its key alleged intuitions. I then articulate a host of varied responses open to the reliabilist, arguing that these readily available responses provide the reliabilist with a way to either accommodate or reject these initial intuitions about the demon world victim thought experiment, and in a way consistent with reliabilism. Thus, I conclude that the demon world thought experiment does not undercut reliability as the hallmark of epistemic justification.

Keywords : Epistemology; externalism; reliabilism; demon world victims.