Epistemology in the face of the strong sociology of knowledge: a reply to Maffie

James Maffie claims that weak continuity reliabilism is compatible with the principles, as well as the insights, of the Strong Programme in the Sociol ogy of Knowledge (SPSK). There are three possible readings of weak continui ty reliabilism: I argue that the first two are unsound, while the third is actually inconsistent with the principles of SPSK. SPSK is instead compatib le with an identicist epistemology, one that does not aim to distinguish sc ientific epistemology from our everyday epistemic practice.