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Epistemic authenticity

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 413-432, June 2026.
Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 289-300, May 2026.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 104-122, March 2026.
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Teaching Students to Understand Knowledge: Stress‐Testing the ‘Justified True Belief Account’ for Critical Thinking

Future in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 569-579, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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On the Interpretation of Scripture

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This article focuses on examining a particular method of Biblical Interpretation. This specific method is that of the Patristic Method of Biblical Interpretation, proposed by Richard Swinburne. The Patristic Method faces a specific issue, ‘the Authority’
Sijuwade Joshua
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Omnisubjectivity as a Divine Attribute from Islamic Perspective

TheoLogica
The paper aims to demonstrate how the concept of omnisubjectivity can be drawn upon in an attempt to solve philosophical problems pertinent to the divine attribute of omniscience in the Islamic context.
Kemal Kikanovic, Enis Doko
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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1466-1485, December 2025.
Abstract Recent approaches are unable to make full sense of Nietzsche's distinction between weak and strong skepticism (BGE 208–209; A54). In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation. My suggestion is that this distinction is best understood in the context of his virtue epistemology.
Lorenzo Serini
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The virtue of ignorance: How epistemic agency needs cognitive limitations

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 603-618, December 2025.
Abstract The thesis defended in this article is that epistemology should treat some of our cognitive limitations not as unfortunate defects or external perturbations to be idealized away in theories of epistemic agency, but as necessary underpinnings of good reasoning.
Benjamin T. Rancourt
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Epistemic Egoism and the Protestant Uses of Tradition

TheoLogica
Although ecumenical dialogue has highlighted many commonalities between Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox, many issues still remain contentious.
Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen
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Usando a teoria das virtudes para definir ciência e conceitos relacionados

Filosofia Unisinos
Meu objetivo neste artigo é construir definições para o conceito de ciência e conceitos relacionados, recorrendo a conceitos de uma teoria de ética normativa: a teoria das virtudes. Na seção 1, introduzo alguns dos conceitos centrais da teoria
Alexandre Ziani de Borba
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