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Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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 ...
Carter, J. Adam   +2 more
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The virtue of curiosity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A thriving project in contemporary epistemology concerns identifying and explicating the epistemic virtues. Although there is little sustained argument for this claim, a number of prominent sources suggest that curiosity is an epistemic virtue.
Ross, Lewis
core   +1 more source

On Virtuously Attaining Truth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Recently, Linda Zagzebski developed an account of\ud cognizers as agents. "An effective agent is reliably\ud successful in reaching her ends and she does so through\ud the exercise of her own power�
Niederbacher, Bruno
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Post‐Release Survival and Behavioral Recovery of a Rehabilitated Short‐Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in the South China Sea Revealed Through Satellite Tracking

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
This study presents the first empirical evidence of successful rehabilitation and post‐release monitoring of a short‐finned pilot whale in the South China Sea—a region where such data are critically lacking despite frequent stranding events. Using satellite telemetry and a dedicated resighting expedition, we documented the 52‐day movement, diving ...
Mingming Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wierenga on theism and counterpossibles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Several theists, including Linda Zagzebski, have claimed that theism is somehow committed to nonvacuism about counterpossibles. Even though Zagzebski herself has rejected vacuism, she has offered an argument in favour of it, which Edward Wierenga has ...
Lampert, Fabio
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Responding to the Religious Reasons of Others: Resonance and Non-Reducitve Religious Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Call a belief ”non-negotiable’ if one cannot abandon the belief without the abandonment of one’s religious perspective. Although non-negotiable beliefs can logically exclude other perspectives, a non-reductive approach to religious pluralism can help to ...
Legenhausen, Muhammad
core   +1 more source

What's Wrong with Wishful Thinking? “Manifesting” as an Epistemic Vice

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 260-275, April 2025.
Abstract The popular trend of manifesting involves supposedly making something happen by imagining it and consciously thinking it will happen in order to will it into existence. In this paper Laura D'Olimpio explains why manifesting is a form of wishful thinking and argues that it is an epistemic vice. She describes how such wishful thinking generally,
Laura D'Olimpio
wiley   +1 more source

Lassen sich epistemische Tugenden als eine Art ethische Tugenden verstehen?

open access: yesZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie
In diesem Beitrag geht es um die Frage, wie eine „intellektuelle Ethik“ aussehen müsste, in der der Begriff der Tugend eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Unter Tugendepistemolog:innen, die so einen Ansatz verfolgen, gibt es die Tendenz, epistemische Tugenden ...
Jens Kertscher
doaj   +1 more source

First Person and Third Person Reasons and Religious Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper I argue that there are two kinds of epistemic reasons. One kind is irreducibly first personal -- what I call deliberative reasons. The other kind is third personal -- what I call theoretical reasons.
Zagzebski, Linda
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For A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority: A Collective Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper attempts to provide a remedy to a surprising lacuna in the current discussion in the epistemology of expertise, namely the lack of a theory accounting for the epistemic authority of collective agents.
Croce, Michel
core   +3 more sources

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