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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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A Case for an Historical Vice Epistemology

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2021
This paper encourages greater engagement between contemporary vice epistemology and the work of intellectual and social historians of the vices. I argue that studies of the nature and significance of epistemic vices and faliings can be enriched by ...
Ian James Kidd
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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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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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Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility [PDF]

, 2023
Virtue epistemologies about knowledge have traditionally been divided into two camps: virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism. Initially, what set them apart was that virtue responsibilism took intellectual character virtues and responsible agency ...
Brogaard, Berit
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Epistemic autonomy: a criterion for virtue?

, 2013
Catherine Elgin proposes a novel principle for identifying epistemic virtue. Based loosely on Kant’s Categorical Imperative, it identifies autonomy as our fundamental epistemic responsibility, and defines the epistemic virtues as those traits of ...
Mudd, Sasha
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Alla som känner glädje är kreativa?

Lychnos, 2022
Why is creativity such a ubiquitous virtue in the United States and Europe today? In this article, it is argued that exhortations to be creative, as well as to follow one’s passion and have fun at work, all are signs of the new virtue “Authentic ...
Annelie Drakman
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Mulla Sadra on Virtue and Action [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2018
This paper sheds light on the views of Mulla Sadra about virtue and action. The main question is how he explains the relationship, if any, between virtue and action.
Zahra Khazaei
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Pure intuition: Miranda Fricker on the economy of prejudice

Theoria, 2008
Two aspects of Miranda Fricker’s book are criticised: the implicit assumption that ethical theory can solve fundamental problems in epistemology, and the excessive reliance on testimony as a fundamental source of knowledge.
Jesús ZAMORA BONILLA
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Epistemic merit, autonomy, and testimony

Theoria, 2008
In this paper, it is argued that both the informer and the hearer in a testimonial situation deserve epistemic merit insofar as they contribute to the collaborative achievement of sharing knowledge.
Jesús VEGA ENCABO
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