ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the standard virtue reliabilist account of knowledge according to which knowledge is belief that’s successful (i.e. true) because competent (i.e. justified). Two versions of the view are distinguished in accordance with two ways of unpacking the because relation, i.e. in terms of explanatory salience and ability manifestation. It is argued that there is reason to prefer the latter. Even so, the resulting view continues to struggle with a number of well-known problems in epistemology, including the problem of fake barn and lottery cases.
