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Virtue Theory against Situationism
Epistemology, 2017 This chapter looks at the shocking but robust results obtained by social epistemologists in experiments that prompt a situationist attack on virtue theory. Based on a body of troubling results in social psychology, an intriguing critique has been pressed in recent years against virtue ethics, raising doubts both about its moral psychology and about its
E. Sosa
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Quadriplegia, virtue theory, and flourishing: a qualitative study drawing on self-narratives [PDF]
, 2018 Grounded in the logic of the virtue tradition, the qualitative study “the good life and quadriplegia” collected the self-narratives of people that have lived with the impairment over the medium to long term.
S. Clifton, G. Llewellyn, T. Shakespeare
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Other-Regarding Virtues and Their Place in Virtue Argumentation Theory
Informal Logic, 2020 In this paper, I argue that, despite the progress made in recent years, virtue argumentation theory still lacks a more systematic acknowledgment of other-regarding virtues.
Felipe Oliveira de Sousa
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Essays in Philosophy, 2013 What is the function of Cartesian virtue within the motivational and cognitive economy of the soul? In this paper I show that Cartesian virtue is a higher-order motivational disposition. Central to the interpretation I defend is Descartes’s view that the will can govern an individual’s attention. An exercise of this capacity, I argue, is a higher-order
Andrew Youpa
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Supersymmetric gauged double field theory: systematic derivation by virtue of twist [PDF]
, 2015 A bstractIn a completely systematic and geometric way, we derive maximal and half-maximal supersymmetric gauged double field theories in lower than ten dimensions.
Wonyoung Cho +3 more
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Metaphilosophy, 2010 Abstract:In this essay I outline a radical kind of virtue theory I call exemplarism, which is foundational in structure but which is grounded in exemplars of moral goodness, direct reference to which anchors all the moral concepts in the theory. I compare several different kinds of moral theory by the way they relate the concepts of the good, a right ...
L. Zagzebski
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A Critical Review of Zagzebski’s Theory of Virtue Epistemology: Some Preliminary Objections [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021 Linda Zagzebski’s reading of virtue epistemology is consisted of several elements. In her synthetic theory, if not eclectic, there are many defects. In this research, after providing a very short explanation of the core of the theory, four defects are ...
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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A Virtue-based and Comparative Reading of Ibn Sina and Mula Sadra’s Epistemological Theory [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2020 Virtue-based epistemological theories are a branch of externalist epistemology. These theories introduced by Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski are among these theories.
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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Philosophical Foundations of Criminalization: Analysis of Moral Vices from the Perspective of the Theory of Self-Government and the Principle of Harm [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022 As a normative ethics theory, virtue ethics theory can present a criterion for criminalization. The revival of this theory brought about a great new change in new ethics philosophy in the second half of the 20th century.
Kamran Mahmoudian Esfahani +2 more
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A comparative study of Ibn Miskawayh’s and Michael Slote’s Virtue Ethics [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2017 Virtue ethics is one of the normative ethical theories that, unlike deontological theory or utilitarianism, emphasizes on virtuousness. Ibn Miskawayh’s virtue ethics is influenced by Aristotle, and Michael Slot is influenced by Hume's views. A comparison
Mohsen Habibi, Ali Sadeghinejad
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