 The first main response to epistemic situationism is to deny that there is a problem, referring to more heartening empirical evidence. For example, Fairweather and Montemayor (2014) argue that heuristics—instead of being unreliable mental shortcuts—are more reliable than traditional inferential patterns that people tend to misuse. In a similar vein, Samuelson and Church (2015) argue that heuristics, when properly monitored and interrupted by top-down effortful cognition, can be reliable, and that effective exercise of such top-down control constitutes a version of the responsibilist virtue of intellectual humility. And King (2014a) defends responsibilism by pointing out that, at least on Zagzebski’s (1996) version of VE, knowledge needn’t manifest virtue but instead needs only to arise from the sort of motivated inquiry that a virtuous person would engage in.