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In defence of virtue epistemology [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2009 In a number of recent papers Duncan Pritchard argues that virtue epistemology’s central ability condition—one knows that p if and only if one has attained cognitive success (true belief) because of the exercise of intellectual ability—is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge.
Christoph Kelp, Kelp Christoph
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A sensitive virtue epistemology [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2016 We offer an alternative to two influential accounts of virtue epistemology: Robust Virtue Epistemology (RVE) and Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology (ALVE). We argue that while traditional RVE does offer an explanation of the distinctive value of knowledge, it is unable to effectively deal with cases of epistemic luck; and while ALVE does effectively deal ...
Anthony Bolós, James Henry Collin
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VIRTUE ETHICS AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY
Metaphilosophy, 2010 Abstract:The aim of this essay is to test the claim that epistemologists—virtue epistemologists in particular—have much to learn from virtue ethics. The essay begins with an outline of virtue ethics itself. This section concludes that a pure form of virtue ethics is likely to be unattractive, so the virtue epistemologist should examine the “impure ...
Roger Crisp
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Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 The paper aims to examine and criticize recent approaches suggested by some virtue reliabilists. To this end, section 2 provides a sketch of Sosa’s triple account of knowledge, on which knowledge is described as a cognitive achievement and an apt belief.
Mohammad Hossein Mohamad Ali Khalaj
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A Critical Study of the Pure Virtue Epistemology of Zagzebski [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2022 In the evaluation of knowledge from the epistemological point of view on one hand such as fundamentalism, coherentism, and reliabilism, and on the other hand externalism and internalism have been proposed. The pure Virtue Epistemology theory was proposed
Abass Khosravi Bizhaem +3 more
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Scientific Knowledge: Virtue Epistemology vs Rational Skepticism [PDF]
Антиномии, 2022 This article is devoted to a critical analysis of the epistemology of virtues as a relatively new philosophical trend, the interest in which is noticeably increasing.
Rustem A. Yartsev
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Defending the Good Dog Picture of Virtues [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 I consider and reject a specific criticism advanced by Korsgaard against virtue ethics and epistemology when these are conceived with the help of what she calls the image of the “Good Dog.” I consider what virtue ethics and epistemology would look like ...
Andrei Ionuţ Mărăşoiu
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The Role of Non-Cognitive Factors on Knowledge from the Point of View of Plantinga and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2023 Plantinga is one of the virtue-oriented philosophers and in epistemology, he has an approach of reliability and extroversion, in virtue-based reliability, the virtue and vice characteristics of the knowing agent, including the characteristics and ...
Zeinab Shakibi, Fahimeh Khoshnevisan
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Prudence, Rules, and Regulative Epistemology
Philosophies, 2023 Following Ballantyne, we can distinguish between descriptive and regulative epistemology. Whereas descriptive epistemology analyzes epistemic categories such as knowledge, justified belief, or evidence, regulative epistemology attempts to guide our ...
Miguel García-Valdecasas, Joe Milburn
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A Virtue-based and Comparative Reading of Ibn Sina and Mula Sadra’s Epistemological Theory [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2020 Virtue-based epistemological theories are a branch of externalist epistemology. These theories introduced by Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski are among these theories.
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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