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VIRTUE ETHICS AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2022
This article argues for a way out of the swamping problem by showing where his virtue epistemology substantially departs from traditional process reliabilism and how such departure is enough to protect the former from issues that affect the way the ...
Ernest Sosa
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Emotional Intelligence as an Intellectual Virtue: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Assessment

open access: yesPhenomenology 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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Lucky Achievement: Virtue Epistemology on the Value of Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Virtue epistemology argues that knowledge is more valuable than Gettierized belief because knowledge is an achievement, but Gettierized belief is not. The key premise in the achievement argument is that achievement is apt (successful because competent ...
Ho, Tsung‐Hsing
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2010
The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
doaj   +1 more source

A virtue epistemology of the Internet: Search engines, intellectual virtues and education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper applies a virtue epistemology approach to using the Internet, as to improve our information-seeking behaviours. Virtue epistemology focusses on the cognitive character of agents and is less concerned with the nature of truth and epistemic ...
Heersmink, Richard
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Virtuous Insightfulness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Insight often strikes us blind; when we aren’t expecting it, we suddenly see a connection that previously eluded us—a kind of ‘Aha!’ experience. People with a propensity to such experiences are regarded as insightful, and insightfulness is a paradigmatic
Dodds   +14 more
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust virtue epistemology and Epistemic anti-individualism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

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