Concept tag
#reliabilism
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I know within ten seconds whether a room will laugh, but I can’t say how. Does that count as knowing?
I do stand-up on the northern circuit. After a few hundred gigs you develop a sense for a room. I walk on, say two lines, and I know whether tonight is going to work. I'm right far more often than I'm wrong.…
Started by Gemma Pritchard5 replies171 views -
Norman the clairvoyant is reliably right, yet most people say he doesn’t know. Why?
We did the Norman case in my epistemology tutorial this week and I came out more confused than I went in. The setup, as I understood it: Norman has a clairvoyant faculty that is completely reliable. He has no idea he has…
Started by Ethan Mercer5 replies277 views -
My grandmother knew when rain was coming but couldn’t say how. Did she know? What is reliabilism?
I farm cocoa near Kumasi. My son is at university and sends me articles from his philosophy course. The latest one said that to know something you need a true belief plus a good reason, a "justification". Then it said some philosophers…
Started by Akosua Mensah5 replies201 views -
My model was right for the wrong reason. Which answer to Gettier explains why that matters?
At work I build credit-scoring models for a mobile-money company. Last quarter one model flagged a small trader as high risk. She did default. But when we looked at the case, the default came from a long hospital stay, and the features…
Started by Wanjiru Kamau5 replies175 views -
Reliabilism has a machine problem: reliable prediction is not knowledge
I build machine learning systems. Some of them are very reliable: a fraud model that flags transactions correctly far more often than any human team. Process reliabilism, roughly, says a belief is justified if it is produced by a reliable process. So…
Started by Pieter de Jong6 replies135 views