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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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Virtue Epistemology and Explanatory Salience [PDF]

, 2018
Robust virtue epistemology holds that knowledge is true belief obtained through cognitive ability. In this essay I explain that robust virtue epistemology faces a dilemma, and the viability of the theory depends on an adequate understanding of the ...
Gardiner, Georgi
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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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Robust virtue epistemology and Epistemic anti-individualism [PDF]

, 2012
According to robust virtue epistemology, knowledge is a cognitive achievement, where this means that the agent's cognitive success is because of her cognitive ability.
Kallestrup, Jesper, Pritchard, Duncan
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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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Virtues of historiography [PDF]

, 2012
In this paper, I take up Herman Paul's suggestion to analyze the process of writing history in terms of virtues. In contrast to Paul, however, I argue that the concept of virtue used here should not be based on virtue epistemology, but rather on virtue ...
Froeyman, Anton
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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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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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Socializing Virtue Epistemology

Episteme
Abstract In recent years, virtue epistemology has been criticized for its individualism. Correspondingly, some attempts have been made to make it more social. However, there is some confusion about what it means for virtue epistemology to be individualistic, and how it should be socialized in the face of this. The current paper proposes a systematic
Dominik Jarczewski, Wayne D. Riggs
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