ABSTRACT

Epistemic naturalism comes in two flavours: revisionism and reductionism. Revisionists hope to recast epistemology as a non-normative branch of empirical psychology. On their view, our pre-theoretic notion of warrant will vanish from a properly reformulated epistemology. Reductionists, by contrast, hope to reduce that notion to something respectable. On their view, warrant is legitimized through its identification with naturalistic phenomena. I aim to elucidate and critique the dominant style of reductionism. It says our pre-theoretic notion of warrant reduces to probability of truth. The approach is known as Reliabilism.