Christopher Lepock

TL;DR: The authors propose that what differentiates a virtue or ability from a merely reliable process is whether the subject has effective metacognitive control over it, and that the adaptability and accuracy that effective regulation provides are hallmarks of ability and of virtuous inquiry.

TL;DR: This paper argued that Sosa's account of the epistemic perspective does not ensure that the perspective will confer justification, and that an adequate epistemic viewpoint must establish a non-accidental connection between an agent's use of a faculty in certain circumstances and its reliability in those circumstances.

TL;DR: This paper argues that epistemic evaluation is exploited in different ways by adverting to reliability at different levels of generality, and can detect at least two distinct uses of reliability, which underlie different sorts of appraisals of beliefs and believers.