Competencia, Seguridad y Situación en el Fiabilismo de Virtudes

This paper presents the debate between two types of virtue reliabilists: robust reliabilists, who envision knowledge as apt belief resulting from the manifestation of the epistemic agent’s reliable cognitive competences, and modest or anti-luck reliabilists, who argue that, in addition to competence, knowledge requires an additional condition, which they identify as the safety condition. After presenting the terms of the debate, an argument is put forth to challenge modest reliabilism: the safety condition is already embedded in two fundamental aspects assumed in the concept of competence inherent to robust reliabilism through its situational condition, rendering the safety condition somewhat trivial.