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A new response to the new evil demon problem

A new response to the new evil demon problem
A new response to the new evil demon problem
The New Evil Demon Problem is meant to show that reliabilism about epistemic justification is incompatible with the intuitive idea that the external-world beliefs of a subject who is the victim of a Cartesian demon could be epistemically justified. Here, I present a new argument that such beliefs can be justified on reliabilism. Whereas others have argued for this conclusion by making some alterations in the formulation of reliabilism, I argue that, as far as the said problem is concerned, such alterations are redundant. No reliabilist should fear the demon.
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Baysan, Umut
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Baysan, Umut
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Baysan, Umut (2017) A new response to the new evil demon problem. Logos & Episteme, 8 (1), 41-45. (doi:10.5840/logos-episteme2017812).

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The New Evil Demon Problem is meant to show that reliabilism about epistemic justification is incompatible with the intuitive idea that the external-world beliefs of a subject who is the victim of a Cartesian demon could be epistemically justified. Here, I present a new argument that such beliefs can be justified on reliabilism. Whereas others have argued for this conclusion by making some alterations in the formulation of reliabilism, I argue that, as far as the said problem is concerned, such alterations are redundant. No reliabilist should fear the demon.

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Published date: 1 October 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 505113
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/505113
PURE UUID: 69e3e9e5-dcb0-4242-8c20-42392e946d3d
ORCID for Umut Baysan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1975-0739

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