The Justificatory Power of Memory Experience

Psychological research has discovered that episodic memories are constructive in nature. This pa-per examines how, despite being constructive, episodic memories can provide us with justificationfor beliefs about the past. In current literature, two major approaches to memorial justificationare internalist foundationalism and reliabilism. I first demonstrate that an influential version ofinternalist foundationalism, dogmatism, encounters problems when we compare certain typesof memory construction with cognitive penetration in perception. On the other hand, variousversions of reliabilism all face skeptical challenges. I propose an alternative, two-factor theory thatrecognizes an epistemic distinction typically overlooked by dogmatism and reliabilism. Althoughour account leaves certain aspects unspecified, it is an important step forward