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Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Luck [PDF]
Metaphilosophy, 2018 The recent movement towards virtue–theoretic treatments of epistemological concepts can be understood in terms of the desire to eliminate epistemic luck. Significantly, however, it is argued that the two main varieties of virtue epistemology are responding todifferenttypes of epistemic luck.
Duncan Pritchard
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The Gettier Problem: An Analysis in the Context of al-Fārābī’s Epistemic Levels
İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2022 In the history of philosophy, knowledge has been defined in the traditional sense since Plato as justified true belief. Despite the dominance of this definition in epistemology, the adequacy of the fundamental elements that make up definitive knowledge ...
Muhammed Abdullah Haksever
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Robust Virtue Epistemology and the Ontology of Complete Competences
Logos, 2021 In Judgment and Agency, Ernest Sosa argues for a triple-S structure of complete competences that includes, besides the innermost seat competence of the agent, her overall intrinsic condition (shape) and the right situational factors for the ...
Modesto Gómez Alonso
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The Problem of Moral Luck: An Argument Against its Epistemic Reduction
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2009 Anders Schinkel, Schinkel Anders
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, 2018 In almost any domain of endeavour, successes can be attained through skill, but also by dumb luck. An archer’s wildest shots occasionally hit the target. Against enormous odds, some fair lottery tickets happen to win. The same goes in the case of purely cognitive or intellectual endeavours.
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THE EPISTEMIC ANALYSIS OF LUCK [PDF]
Episteme, 2015 AbstractDuncan Pritchard has argued that luck is fundamentally a modal notion: an event is lucky when it occurs in the actual world, but does not occur in more than half of the relevant nearby possible worlds. Jennifer Lackey has provided counterexamples to accounts which, like Pritchard's, only allow for the existence of improbable lucky events.
Gregory Stoutenburg
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Incidental knowledge defended [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The paper analyses epistemic happenstance and argues for the possibility of incidental knowledge. It considers how minimal concepts of knowledge, reflecting various basic intuitions, operate in situations where there is an influence of chance or ...
A. M. Kardash
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Epistemic Justification and Methodological Luck in Inflationary Cosmology [PDF]
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018 I present a recent historical case from cosmology-the story of inflationary cosmology-and on its basis argue that solving explanatory problems is a reliable method for making progress in science. In particular, I claim that the success of inflationary theory at solving its predecessor's explanatory problems justified the theory epistemically, even in ...
C. D. McCoy
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Virtue Perspectivism, Normativity, and the Unity of Knowledge
Daimon, 2018 It will be argued that personal agency, far from lacking epistemic value, contributes to knowledge in a substantial way. To this end, it will be claimed that what Sosa calls an epistemic perspective is necessary to solve the binding problem in ...
Modesto Gómez Alonso
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