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Synthese, 2016 According to Sosa (A virtue epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007; Reflective knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009; Knowing full well, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2011), knowledge is apt belief, where a belief is apt when accurate because adroit (competent).
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Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism
Trans/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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Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Luck [PDF]
, 2018 Robust virtue epistemology contrasts with modestvirtue epistemology, which aims to offer, at most, a necessary condition on knowledge along virtue-theoretic lines.
Pritchard, Duncan, Duncan Pritchard
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology
Informal 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
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A defence of robust virtue epistemology [PDF]
, 2011 Virtue-theoretic approaches to the theory of knowledge aim to explain the nature and value of knowledge by appeal to the cognitive character of the agent. Robust virtue epistemology holds that knowledge is ‘true belief attained through cognitive ability’,
Gardiner, Georgina
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The Social Virtue Of Blind Deference [PDF]
, 2015 Recently, it has become popular to account for knowledge and other epistemic states in terms of epistemic virtues. The present paper focuses on an epistemic virtue relevant when deferring to others in testimonial contexts.
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
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The Agent-Centered Interpretation of Knowledge in Virtue Epistemology
Felsefe ArkiviThis article examines virtue epistemology—an increasingly prominent approach in contemporary epistemology —through the lens of an agent centered interpretation of knowledge.
Fikret Yılmaz
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