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On Epistemic Consequentialism and the Virtue Conflation Problem [PDF]

open access: yesThought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2016
Addressing the ‘virtue conflation’ problem requires the preservation of intuitive distinctions between virtue types, that is, between intellectual and moral virtues. According to one influential attempt to avoid this problem proposed by Julia Driver (2003), moral virtues produce benefits to others—in particular, they promote the well-being of others ...
Carter, J. Adam, Church, Ian M.
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Epistemic Virtue from the Viewpoints of Mulla Sadra and Zagzebski [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2013
This paper compares epistemic virtue from the viewpoints of Zagzebski and Mulla Sadra, aiming to determine the extent to which their viewpoints on epistemic virtue are similar.
Zahra Khazaei
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The Virtue of Epistemic Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this chapter I develop and motivate and account of epistemic autonomy as an intellectual character virtue. In Section one, I clarify the concept of an intellectual virtue and character intellectual virtues in particular.
Matheson, Jonathan
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Epistemic Value, Duty, and Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter introduces some central issues in Epistemology, and, like others in the open textbook series Introduction to Philosophy, is set up for rewarding college classroom use, with discussion/reflection questions matched to clearly-stated learning ...
Axtell, Guy
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Critical Thinking in Moral Argumentation Contexts: A Virtue Ethical Approach

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2012
In traditional analytic philosophy, critical thinking is defined along Cartesian lines as rational and linear reasoning preclusive of intuitions, emotions and lived experience.
Michelle Ciurria
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The Social Virtue Of Blind Deference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Recently, it has become popular to account for knowledge and other epistemic states in terms of epistemic virtues. The present paper focuses on an epistemic virtue relevant when deferring to others in testimonial contexts.
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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Real Life Collective Epistemic Virtue and Vice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter critically examines extant theorizations of collective epistemic virtue and vice. Epistemic virtues are features that make us excellent qua producers and consumers of epistemic goods, such as knowledge, understanding, or wisdom. By contrast,
de Bruin, Boudewijn   +5 more
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The epistemic virtues of consistency [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 1996
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openaire   +3 more sources

Against The Bifurcation Of Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It has become customary in the virtue epistemological literature to distinguish between responsibilist and reliabilist virtue theories. More recently, certain problems affecting the former have prompted epistemologists to suggest that this distinction in
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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Openmindedness and Truth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
While openmindedness is often cited as a paradigmatic example of anintellectual virtue, the connection between openmindedness and truth is tenuous.Several strategies for reconciling this tension are considered, and each is shown tofail; it is thus ...
Carter, J. Adam   +2 more
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