Modal Reliabilism as A Modal Normativism Approach

Abstract

Amie Thomasson points out that the rationalist approaches to modal epistemology usually face the challenges of integration problem and reliability problem,due to their descriptive and realistic assumptions about modal facts and modal properties.Thomasson instead defends a modal normativism position. George Bealer's theory of modal reliabilism can be seen as a more complete approach to modal normativsim. It can further explain the conundrum of integration problem and reliability problem. Therefore, the modal reliabilism theory as a modal normativism approach is worth defending.