Abstract

Plantinga raises two objections against reliabilism, one a putative counterexample, and the second the familiar generality problem. However, his counterexample fails when applied to a sophisticated version of reliabilism, at least the version presented in "Epistemology and Cognition". The generality problem can also be met, I believe, if cognitive process types are understood as purely psychological natural kinds, not as types that refer to external objects or circumstances, for example.