ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces virtue reliabilism, the most prominent rival to process reliabilism in the reliabilist camp. It first develops the standard version of the view according to which what matters to justification are not reliable processes but reliable agent dispositions. Some advantages of virtue reliabilism over process reliabilism are outlined. Crucially, it is argued that virtue reliabilism faces a number of notable problems of its own, including some that it doesn’t inherit from process reliabilism. The chapter then develops a new version of virtue reliabilism that takes abilities to involve processes. It is argued that this view compares favourably with both process reliabilism and standard version of virtue reliabilism.
