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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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Biogerontology and the Intellectual Virtues [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2012
The case for prioritizing the study of the biology of aging can be persuasively made by making explicit its connection to the exercise of the intellectual virtues needed to realize well-ordered science. These intellectual virtues include a range of attitudes and dispositions integral to all areas of science (e.g. sensitivity to details, adaptability of
openaire   +2 more sources

Educating for intellectual virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Virtue epistemology is among the dominant influences in mainstream epistemology today. An important commitment of one strand of virtue epistemology – responsibilist virtue epistemology (e.g., Montmarquet 1993; Zagzebski 1996; Battaly 2006; Baehr 2011 ...
J. Adam Carter   +5 more
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2010
The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
doaj   +1 more source

Argument from Ignorance and Argument from Silence

open access: yesДискурс, 2021
Introduction. This article focuses on the specifics of the arguments from ignorance and arguments from silence. The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest of the scientific community in modeling of defeasible (presumptive) reasoning and ...
E. N. Lisanyuk, A. A. Khamidov
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A Review of Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
This article reviews and criticizes Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics based on Anthony Kenny’s translation. We have tried to show that morality in Aristotle means living good, and his purpose in writing this work is to find an answer to the question “ what is ...
Houriye Bakouei Ketrimi, Hassan Fathi
doaj   +1 more source

Why empathy is an intellectual virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Our aim in this paper is to argue that empathy is an intellectual virtue. Empathy enables agents to gain insight into other people’s emotions and beliefs.
Alkis Kotsonis   +3 more
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Intellectual Hospitality as a Guiding Virtue In Campus Conversations on Abortion

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2023
This essay argues that intellectual hospitality can serve as a guiding virtue to help community members at Catholic colleges and universities engage across difference on the issue of abortion.
Megan Halteman Zwart
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic Virtue from the Viewpoints of Mulla Sadra and Zagzebski [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2013
This paper compares epistemic virtue from the viewpoints of Zagzebski and Mulla Sadra, aiming to determine the extent to which their viewpoints on epistemic virtue are similar.
Zahra Khazaei
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Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character and Valuing Truth

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
This paper explores the thesis that the overarching goal of education is to cultivate virtuous intellectual character. It is shown how finally valuing the truth is central to this theory on account of how such valuing is pivotal to intellectual virtues ...
Duncan Pritchard
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