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On Virtuously Attaining Truth [PDF]

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

Educational 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
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Lassen sich epistemische Tugenden als eine Art ethische Tugenden verstehen?

Zeitschrift 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
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On the Special Epistemic Obligations of the Educator

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 208-226, April 2025.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between educators' epistemic character and their professional responsibilities, arguing that the role of educator carries unique epistemic obligations. Drawing on virtue epistemology and the ethics of belief, Jeff Standley contends that these obligations stem from education's core epistemic aims ...
Jeff Standley
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For A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority: A Collective Approach [PDF]

, 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
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Personalized Learning with AI Tutors: Assessing and Advancing Epistemic Trustworthiness

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 327-353, April 2025.
Abstract AI tutors are promised to expand access to personalized learning, improving student achievement and addressing disparities in resources available to students across socioeconomic contexts. The rapid development and introduction of AI tutors raises fundamental questions of epistemic trust in education.
Nicolas J. Tanchuk, Rebecca M. Taylor
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Teaching Open‐Mindedness for Challenging Classrooms

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 292-314, April 2025.
Abstract Whether open‐mindedness (OM) counts as an admirable epistemic aim of education has been a surprisingly contentious matter. Skeptics point out that OM is only contingently truth‐conducive and that open‐minded students may be maladaptive to the hostile epistemic environment outside school. Here, Seunghyun Lee contends that, while these critiques
Seunghyun Lee
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First Person and Third Person Reasons and Religious Epistemology [PDF]

, 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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Two Sorts of Natural Theology [PDF]

, 2018
Usually, natural theology is understood as the project of providing arguments for the existence of God. This project is endorsed by Moreland and Craig. McGrath, on the other hand, says that this project fails.
Jakobsen, Martin
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Educating Open‐Mindedness through Philosophy in Schools

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 315-326, April 2025.
Abstract Closed‐mindedness is a characteristic trait of irresponsible believers. For this reason and others, educators should actively discourage closed‐mindedness in their students. One way to do this is to cultivate its opposing virtue: open‐mindedness.
Danielle Diver
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