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The virtue of curiosity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A thriving project in contemporary epistemology concerns identifying and explicating the epistemic virtues. Although there is little sustained argument for this claim, a number of prominent sources suggest that curiosity is an epistemic virtue.
Ross, Lewis
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The Rule of St. Benedict and Modern Liberal Authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper I examine the sixth century ’Rule of St. Benedict’, and argue that the authority structure of Benedictine communities as described in that document satisfies well-known principles of authority defended by Joseph Raz.
Zagzebski, Linda
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Virtude, agência e responsabilidade: uma perspectiva epistemológica

open access: yesGriot: Revista de Filosofia, 2016
O foco de interesse neste artigo se coloca na relevância da noção de agência para análises de conhecimento em termos de virtude epistêmica, destacando a estratégia assumida por epistemólogos da virtude na defesa da tese de que podemos ser agentes ...
Kátia M. Etcheverry
doaj   +1 more source

Educating through Exemplars: Alternative Paths to Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper confronts Zagzebski’s exemplarism with the intertwined debates over the conditions of exemplarity and the unity-disunity of the virtues, to show the advantages of a pluralistic exemplar-based approach to moral education (PEBAME).
Annas J   +21 more
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The components of accepting the authority of knowledge according to Zagzebski and the related themes in Sohrevardi's reflections. [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر
Problem: Epistemic authority or trust and reference to others in acquiring knowledge has long been a subject of interest for philosophers. However, this issue has been challenged and criticized in the modern era based on the concept of autonomy in ...
Zahra Sadeghimanesh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE VIRTUOUS CITIZEN: REGIMES AND AUDIENCES

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2017
The purpose of the present paper is to sketch the possibility of an audience theory specific to virtue argumentation taking as a starting point what Aristotle has to say about political audiences in the context of specific political constitutions and ...
Iovan DREHE DREHE
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Expert testimony, law and epistemic authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2016 This article discusses the concept of epistemic authority in the context of English law relating to expert testimony.
Ward, Tony
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Understanding and Coming to Understand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Many philosophers take understanding to be a distinctive kind of knowledge that involves grasping dependency relations; moreover, they hold it to be particularly valuable.
Lynch, Michael
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The Incoherent Root of Theological Fatalism

open access: yesTheoLogica
This paper begins with a standard argument for theological fatalism and unravels deeper dilemmas in stages, arriving at an argument that has nothing to do with divine foreknowledge or free will. I then focus on the problem of the incoherence or at least
Linda Zagzebski
doaj   +1 more source

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