A Comparative Study of Alvin Goldman and Alvin Plantingaon Process reliabilism

The comparative study of Alvin Goldman and Alvin Plantinga on Process reliabilismresults in a clear and explicit picture of reliabilisticapproaches. Through this, it is possible to distinguish the similarities and differences between internalist and externalist theories. General and common components of reliabilistic theories are as such: truth conductivity, no needfor the knower to be aware of the nature of belief, replacingthe validity of the beliefwiththe validity of perceptional processes of belief, rejecting the deontologist requirement, insisting on epistemic and non-epistemic factors outside of the belief, focusing on the agent’s characteristics as well as the environment of belief making, and consequentialist characteristic. Based on these components, reliabilistic theories are distinguished from both internalist theories and externalist ones. However, reliabilistic theories approach to foundationalism because of partial insisting on normativity, truth maker system, corresponding to the reality, and defeatable basic beliefs. And at the same time, because of insisting on epistemic virtues, success and progress, the approach to virtue epistemology; and on the other hand, they approach to naturalism because of the causal relation between the fact and the belief.