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The Agent-Centered Interpretation of Knowledge in Virtue Epistemology
This article examines virtue epistemology—an increasingly prominent approach in contemporary epistemology —through the lens of an agent centered interpretation of knowledge.
Fikret Yılmaz
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Faith and rational deference to authority
Abstract Many accounts of faith hold that faith is deference to an authority about what to believe or what to do. I show that this kind of faith fits into a more general account of faith, the risky‐commitment account. I further argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority even when the authority's pronouncement goes against one's own ...
Lara Buchak
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Abstract In this paper Johan Dahlbeck sets out to propose a pedagogy of “as if,” seeking to address the educational paradox of how students can be influenced to approximate a life guided by reason without assuming that they are already sufficiently rational to adhere to dictates of practical reason.
Johan Dahlbeck
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The consequences of seeing imagination as a dual‐process virtue
Abstract Michael T. Stuart (2021 and 2022) has proposed imagination as an intellectual dual‐process virtue, consisting of imagination1 (underwritten by cognitive Type 1 processing) and imagination2 (supported by Type 2 processing). This paper investigates the consequences of taking such an account seriously.
Ingrid Malm Lindberg
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Zagzebski on Authority and Preemption in the Domain of Belief [PDF]
The paper discusses Linda Zagzebski's account of epistemic authority. Building on Joseph Raz's account of political authority, Zagzebski argues that the basic contours of epistemic authority match those Raz ascribes to political authority.
Keren, Arnon, Arnon Keren
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Can Epistemic Paternalistic Practice Make Us Better Epistemic Agents?
Abstract Can epistemic paternalistic practices make us better epistemic agents? While a satisfying answer to this question will ultimately rest at least partly on empirical findings, considering the epistemological discussion on evidence, knowledge, and epistemic virtues can be insightful.
Giada Fratantonio
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Epistemic Vice Rehabilitation: Saints and Sinners Zetetic Exemplarism
Abstract This paper proposes a novel educational approach to epistemic vice rehabilitation. Its authors Gerry Dunne and Alkis Kotsonis note that, like Quassim Cassam, they remain optimistic about the possibility of improvement with regard to epistemic vice.
Gerry Dunne, Alkis Kotsonis
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Loma Linda University officials during dinner in honor of Tieman
Photograph from album given to Norman John Tieman during a luncheon in his honor as a "great benefactor", Loma Linda University, Magan Hall conference ...
Loma Linda University Audio-Visual Services
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Norman John Tieman receiving plaque from Loma Linda University president Deacon J. Bieber
Norman John Tieman receiving plaque from Loma Linda University president Deacon J.
Loma Linda University Audio-Visual Services
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Loma Linda University councilors in meeting in Washington, D.C..
Loma Linda University councilors in Washington D. C.
Loma Linda University
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