Remembering requires no reliability.
I argue against mnemic reliabilism, an influential view that successful remembering must be produced by a reliable memory process. Drawing on empirical evidence from psychology and neuroscience, I refute mnemic reliabilism by demonstrating that: (1) patients with memory impairments (e.g., Alzheimer'...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 181; no. 1; pp. 43 - 64 |
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