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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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On the Special Epistemic Obligations of the Educator

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 208-226, April 2025.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between educators' epistemic character and their professional responsibilities, arguing that the role of educator carries unique epistemic obligations. Drawing on virtue epistemology and the ethics of belief, Jeff Standley contends that these obligations stem from education's core epistemic aims ...
Jeff Standley
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Towards a knowledge-based account of understanding [PDF]

, 2017
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Kelp, Christoph
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Intellectualism and Testimony [PDF]

, 2017
Knowledge-how often appears to be more difficult to transmit by testimony than knowledge-that and knowledge-wh. Some philosophers have argued that this difference provides us with an important objection to intellectualism—the view that knowledge-how is a
Cath, Yuri
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A virtue epistemology of the Internet: Search engines, intellectual virtues and education [PDF]

, 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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Recent Work in the Epistemology of Understanding [PDF]

, 2021
The philosophical interest in the nature, value, and varieties of human understanding has swelled in recent years. This article will provide an overview of new research in the epistemology of understanding, with a particular focus on the following ...
Hannon, Michael
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The Eternity Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper I defend the eternity solution to the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. After motivating the problem, I sketch the basic contours of the eternity solution.
Rota, Michael
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You Are Only as Good as You Are Behind Closed Doors: The Stability of Virtuous Dispositions [PDF]

, 2020
Virtues are standardly characterized as stable dispositions. A stable disposition implies that the virtuous actor must be disposed to act well in any domain required of them. For example, a politician is not virtuous if s/he is friendly in debate with an
Goldstein, Rena Beatrice
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What's the Point of Understanding? [PDF]

, 2019
What is human understanding and why should we care about it? I propose a method of philosophical investigation called ‘function-first epistemology’ and use this method to investigate the nature and value of understanding-why.
Hannon, Michael
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Two Sorts of Natural Theology [PDF]

, 2018
Usually, natural theology is understood as the project of providing arguments for the existence of God. This project is endorsed by Moreland and Craig. McGrath, on the other hand, says that this project fails.
Jakobsen, Martin
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