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A robust enough virtue epistemology
SynthÈse, 2016What is the nature of knowledge? A popular answer to that long-standing question comes from robust virtue epistemology, whose key idea is that knowing is just a matter of succeeding cognitively—i.e., coming to believe a proposition truly—due to an exercise of cognitive ability. Versions of robust virtue epistemology further developing and systematizing
Fernando Broncano-Berrocal
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Virtue Epistemology and Virtue Ethics
Because so much is said about virtue ethics elsewhere in this volume, we propose to leave general discussion of the nature of virtue ethics largely to one side and to focus, rather, on bringing the reader up to speed on virtue epistemology.
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Virtue Epistemology and Education
This seminar will provide a brief overview of virtue epistemology and it will consider some possible ramifications of the discipline, for education. Some of the differences between epistemology and virtue epistemology as well as the main features of five different manifestations of virtue epistemology will be explained.
Macallister, James
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Virtue Epistemology and the Epistemology of Virtue
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000The ancient Greeks almost universally accepted the thesis that virtues are skills. Skills have an underlying intellectual structure (logos), and having a particular skill entails understanding the relevant logos, possessing a general ability to diagnose and solve problems (phronesis), as well as having appropriate experience.
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Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, and the Structure of Virtue
Contemporary virtue epistemology examines the cognitive life with an eye to the epistemic excellences or intellectual virtues of knowing subjects (Battaly 2008).
Jason Baehr, Baehr, Jason
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The Virtue of Epistemological Dualism
Philosophia, 2014The article tries to answer the following question: what is the most promising epistemological strategy if my objective is the construction of a theory which gives me the opportunity to decrease the risk of getting to what is actually absolute, that is, to irreversible negative actions (irreversible as a theory might not be, but as an action often is)?
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Philosophy Compass, 2008
Abstract What are the qualities of an excellent thinker? A growing new field, virtue epistemology, answers this question. distinguishes virtue epistemology from belief‐based epistemology. explains the two primary accounts of intellectual virtue: virtue‐reliabilism and virtue‐responsibilism. Virtue‐reliabilists claim that the virtues
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Abstract What are the qualities of an excellent thinker? A growing new field, virtue epistemology, answers this question. distinguishes virtue epistemology from belief‐based epistemology. explains the two primary accounts of intellectual virtue: virtue‐reliabilism and virtue‐responsibilism. Virtue‐reliabilists claim that the virtues
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Collective (Telic) Virtue Epistemology [PDF]
A new way to transpose the virtue epistemologist’s ‘knowledge = apt belief’ template to the collective level, as a thesis about group knowledge, is developed. In particular, it is shown how specifically judgmental belief can be realised at the collective level in a way that is structurally analogous, on a telic theory of epistemic normativity (e.g ...
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