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A brief discussion of the empirical plausibility of the Reflective Epistemic Agency

Trans/Form/Ação, 2022
This paper aims to discuss one specific feature of Sosa’s performance epistemology, which is what we call Reflective Epistemic Agency. We argue that Sosa defends a problematic version of epistemic agency on its reflective level.
Felipe Rocha Lima Santos, Ana Margarete Barbosa de Freitas   +1 more
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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments

Informal Logic, 2015
Argumentation theorists are beginning to think of ad hominem arguments as generally legitimate. Virtue argumentation theorists argue that a character trait approach to argument appraisal can explain why ad hominems would are legitimate, when they are ...
Patrick Bondy
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The Epistemological and the Moral/Political in Epistemic Responsibility: Beginnings and Reworkings in Lorraine Code’s Work

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2016
This is the first paper in the invited collection. Koggel starts with Code’s first book to record the key objections she raises against traditional and mainstream epistemological accounts.
Christine M. Koggel
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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality [PDF]

Avant, 2017
In the paper, I distinguish the bottom-up strategy and the intentional stance strategy of analyzing group intentional states, and show that the thesis of distributed group subject of knowledge could be accommodated by either of them.
Barbara Trybulec
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The Virtue of Open-Mindedness as a Virtue of Attention

Philosophies, 2023
Open-mindedness appears as a potential intellectual virtue from the beginning of the rise of the literature on intellectual virtues. It often takes up a special role, sometimes thought of as a meta-virtue rather than a first-order virtue: as an ...
Isabel Kaeslin
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A knowledge first virtue reliabilism of Christoph Kelp [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2023
This article examines Christoph Kelp’s project of epistemology, which combines the approaches of Timothy Williamson’s knowledge-first approach and Ernest Sosa’s virtue reliabilism.
A. M. Kardash
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An Aristotelian Critique to Contemporary Virtue Epistemology

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
This paper aims to offer an Aristotelian critique of virtue epistemology, particularly of the way virtue epistemologists use the concept of intellectual virtue in their definitions of knowledge.
Marcelo Cabral
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Robust Virtue Epistemology and the Ontology of Complete Competences

Logos, 2021
In Judgment and Agency, Ernest Sosa argues for a triple-S structure of complete competences that includes, besides the innermost seat competence of the agent, her overall intrinsic condition (shape) and the right situational factors for the ...
Modesto Gómez Alonso
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Memory and reflection

Trans/Form/Ação, 2022
I have argued that the Analects of Confucius presents us with a conception of reflection with two components, a retrospective component and a perspective component.
Chienkuo Mi
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Emotional Intelligence as an Intellectual Virtue: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Assessment

Phenomenology and Mind, 2017
Virtue theory has long recognized the significance of emotion for cognition, yet little philosophical research has been dedicated to identifying an intellectual virtue related to emotion.
Paul Poenicke
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