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Mathematical practice and epistemic virtue and vice
Synthese, 2020 What sorts of epistemic virtues are required for effective mathematical practice? Should these be virtues of individual or collective agents? What sorts of corresponding epistemic vices might interfere with mathematical practice? How do these virtues and
F. Tanswell, I. Kidd
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On the Virtue of Epistemic Justice and the Vice of Epistemic Injustice
Episteme, 2022 In this paper, I develop an account of epistemic justice as a character-based intellectual virtue that a truth-desiring agent would want to possess. The agent who possesses this virtue is just towards other knowers in matters pertaining to epistemic ...
Alkis Kotsonis
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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the paper, I distinguish the bottom-up strategy and the intentional stance strategy of analyzing group intentional states, and show that the thesis of distributed group subject of knowledge could be accommodated by either of them.
Barbara Trybulec
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Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2018 It's widely supposed that unification is an epistemic virtue: the degree to which a theory is unified contributes to its overall confirmation. However, this supposition has consequences which haven't been noted, and which undermine the leading accounts ...
Kit Patrick
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Germanic Loyalty in Nineteenth-Century Historical Studies: A Multi-Layered Virtue
História da Historiografia, 2019 This article seeks to advance historians’ understanding of epistemic virtues in the history of historiography. Drawing on a nineteenth-century case study, it argues that virtues were often multi-layered in the sense of being charged with multiple ...
Herman Paul
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The Epistemic Virtues of a Closed Mind: Effective Science Reporting in the Golden Age of the Con
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 A financial confidence game (or “con”) aims to separate you from your money. An epistemic con aims to influence social policy by recruiting you to spread doubt and falsehood about well-established claims.
Michael A. Bishop, J. D. Trout
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Why We Should Be Curious about Each Other
Philosophies, 2023 Is curiosity a virtue or a vice? Curiosity, as a disposition to attain new, worthwhile information, can manifest as an epistemic virtue. When the disposition to attain new information is not manifested virtuously, this is either because the agent lacks ...
Lisa Bortolotti, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
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A Virtue-based and Comparative Reading of Ibn Sina and Mula Sadra’s Epistemological Theory [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2020 Virtue-based epistemological theories are a branch of externalist epistemology. These theories introduced by Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski are among these theories.
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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Epistemic Virtue and Acceptance in Legal Fact-Finding
Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2016 : The purpose of this paper is to outline the way in which an epistemic virtue approach can be used to address epistemological issues in law. My claim is that responsibilism is the right kind of approach.
Pedro Humberto Haddad Bernat
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F1000Research, 2020 This paper proposes a normative taxonomy by which universities can express the extent to which they meet five core epistemic responsibilities. Epistemic responsibilities are responsibilities that have to do with the attainment of knowledge and ...
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