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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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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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Epistemic pluralism, epistemic relativism and ‘hinge’ epistemology [PDF]
, 2017 According to Paul Boghossian (2006, 73) a core tenet of epistemic relativism is what he calls epistemic pluralism, according to which (i) ‘there are many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems’, but (ii) ‘no facts by virtue of ...
J. Adam Carter, Carter, J. Adam
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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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Resisting Epistemic Injustices
Las Torres de Lucca, 2021 In this paper, I take up the question of how epistemic injustices can be resisted. Miranda Fricker (2007), who introduced the term to describe situations in which subjects are wronged as knowers, has initially advocated an individualist, virtue-based ...
Leon Schlüter
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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 ...
Rik Peels +3 more
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Virtue and argument: Taking character into account [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ...
Justine Kingsbury +3 more
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Virtue ethics and social psychology [PDF]
, 2005 Virtue ethics has emerged as an alternative to deontological and utilitarian theory in recent moral philosophy. The basic notion of virtue ethics is to reassert the importance of virtuous character in ethical judgement in contrast to the emphasis on ...
Lunt, P
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Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Twin Earth [PDF]
, 2014 A popular form of virtue epistemology-defended by such figures as Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski and John Greco-holds that knowledge can be exclusively understood in virtue-theoretic terms.
Jesper Kallestrup +3 more
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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is ...
Leandro De Brasi
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