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Faith and rational deference to authority
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 637-656, May 2024.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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Engendering moral post‐persons: A novel self‐help strategy [PDF]
, 2020 Humans are morally deficient in a variety of ways. Some of these deficiencies threaten the continued existence of our species. For example, we appear to be incapable of responding to climate change in ways that are likely to prevent the consequent ...
Crutchfield, Parker
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Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 145-164, April 2024.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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Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]
, 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 ...
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The consequences of seeing imagination as a dual‐process virtue
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 162-174, April 2024.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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Can Epistemic Paternalistic Practice Make Us Better Epistemic Agents?
Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 108-122, February 2024.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
Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 123-140, February 2024.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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, 2019 In this chapter, we will explore the luck at issue in Gettier-styled counterexamples and the subsequent problem it poses to any viable reductive analysis of knowledge.
Church, Ian M.
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Two Varieties of Moral Exemplarism [PDF]
, 2018 References to moral exemplars run deep into the history of philosophy, as we find them featured in rather disparate context and approaches which span from virtue ethics to moral perfectionism, from existentialism to moral particularism. In the varied and
Marchetti, Sarin
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An Epistemic Non-Consequentialism [PDF]
, 2020 Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This paper articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism, which rests on a requirement of respect for the truth ...
Sylvan, Kurt L.
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