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The epistemic predicament of a pseudoscience: social constructivism confronts Freudian psychoanalysis [PDF]

, 2011
Social constructivist approaches to science have often been dismissed as inaccurate accounts of scientific knowledge. In this paper, we take the claims of robust social constructivism seriously and attempt to find a theory which does instantiate the ...
Boudry, Maarten, Buekens, Filip
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Arrogance and deep disagreement [PDF]

, 2020
I intend to bring recent work applying virtue theory to the study of argument to bear on a much older problem, that of disagreements that resist rational resolution, sometimes termed "deep disagreements".
Aberdein, Andrew
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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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Representation, Interpretation, and Surrogative Reasoning [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper, I develop Mauricio Suárez’s distinction between denotation, epistemic representation, and faithful epistemic representation. I then outline an interpretational account of epistemic representation, according to which a vehicle represents a ...
Contessa, Gabriele
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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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Moral exemplars in education: a liberal account [PDF]

, 2020
This paper takes issue with the exemplarist strategy of fostering virtue development with the specific goal of improving its applicability in the context of education.
Croce, Michel
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Unreflective epistemology [PDF]

, 2014
Virtue epistemological accounts of knowledge claim that knowledge is a species of a broader normative category, to wit of success from ability. Fake Barn cases pose a difficult problem for such accounts. In structurally analogous but non-epistemic cases,
Kelp, Christoph
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Normal Knowledge: Toward an Explanation-Based Theory of Knowledge [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper we argue that knowledge is characteristically safe true belief. We argue that an adequate approach to epistemic luck must not be indexed to methods of belief formation, but rather to explanations for belief.
Peet, Andrew, Pitcovski, Eli
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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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Robust virtue epistemology and Epistemic anti-individualism [PDF]

, 2012
According to robust virtue epistemology, knowledge is a cognitive achievement, where this means that the agent's cognitive success is because of her cognitive ability.
Kallestrup, Jesper, Pritchard, Duncan
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