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Religious Belief and Intellectual Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
Intellectual autonomy indicates how human being can preserve her epistemic agency and intellectually manage and regulate herself. This epistemic value is commonly proposed against intellectual heteronomy according to which the believer is not capable of ...
Amirhossein Khodaparast
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Kierkegaard, “the Public”, and the Vices of Virtue-Signaling: The Dangers of Social Comparison

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Concerns about the dangers of social comparison emerge in multiples places in Kierkegaard’s authorship. I argue that these concerns—and his critique of the role of “the public”—take on a new relevance in the digital age.
John Lippitt
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Eudaimonistic Argumentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Virtue theories have lately enjoyed a modest vogue in the study of argumentation, echoing the success of more far-reaching programmes in ethics and epistemology.
A Aberdein   +23 more
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Virtue Rationality and Religious Beliefs: with an Emphasis on Theory of Sosa [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2013
Virtue epistemology is a new recent approach to epistemology that gives to epistemic or intellectual virtues an important role. Having many similaritywith Externalist Reformed Epistemology, Virtue based view can be used as a new model in religious ...
Saeedeh Fakhkhar Noghani
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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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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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On Epistemic Consequentialism and the Virtue Conflation Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Addressing the ‘virtue conflation’ problem requires the preservation of intuitive distinctions between virtue types, that is, between intellectual and moral virtues.
Ahlstrom-Vij   +22 more
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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 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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Epistemic Paternalism and the Service Conception of Epistemic Authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Epistemic paternalism is the thesis that in some circumstances we are justified in interfering with the inquiry of another for their own epistemic good without consulting them on the issue. In this paper, I address the issue of who is rationally entitled
Ahlstrom-Vij   +19 more
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Germanic Loyalty in Nineteenth-Century Historical Studies: A Multi-Layered Virtue

open access: yesHistória 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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