virtue epistemology essays in epistemic virtue and responsibility may 2001

[...]... identifying a thin concept of justification blocks Alston’s and Cohen’s arguments for the fruitlessness of epistemic debates and preserves the significance of the emerging debates within VE 8 virtue epistemology In “Virtues and Rules in Epistemology, ” John Greco argues that virtue theories in epistemology hold an advantage over deontological theories in epistemology because the former need not understand epistemic. .. inference, our criticism and responses to others— can be conducted well or poorly Audi develops the distinction between epistemic virtue and “belief from epistemic virtue by way of examining Aristotle’s distinction between virtue and action from virtue and Kant’s distinction between action from duty and action according to duty Armed with this distinction and its history, Audi defends a virtue- based analysis... states in order to confer epistemic praise? Are certain affective states intrinsically praiseworthy or only insofar as they bring about true beliefs? Other new questions parallel standing discussions in ethics: How do we balance epistemic principles and virtue in our theory of knowledge? Does the distinction traditionally used in ethics between subjective and objective duty have a parallel in epistemology? ... vice and epistemic incontinence, is there also a difference between epistemic virtue and epistemic continence? These questions and many others deserve attention In addition to these new questions, some old ones can be given a different spin when approached from the standpoint of VE One is the question of whether VE dissolves the internalism/externalism standoff Virtue is a complex and forgiving norm, and. .. theoretical needs in epistemology It happens that the dispute between internalists and externalists can be framed nicely within a virtuebased framework Since some virtue epistemologists maintain that both the causal history and efficacy of a person and her motivational states are important in conferring virtue, both internalist and externalist requirements must be satisfied in the pos12 virtue epistemology. .. meaning and meaningfulness opens up There is no obstacle to bringing in virtues of reason and of theory, reinstating, perhaps, a priori propositions and certainly theoretical propositions And this must be counted a substantial gain Insofar as virtues are heterogeneous and subtle, so can judgments be 5 Epistemology with an Attitude So far I have said little about what it is to deem a cognitive trait a virtue. .. irrefutable in terms of errors in the system Lehrer argues that attaining justification in this sense requires that a person exercise intellectual virtue in accepting what she does When intellectual virtue in what a person accepts explains why the person succeeds in obtaining the objective of truth, the justification based upon coherence with the background system will be undefeated and convert into knowledge... Chapters In “Reason, Virtue, and Knowledge,” Simon Blackburn explores some of the relations between a virtue approach to epistemology and a minimalist or deflationist conception of truth To be interesting, Blackburn points out, VE must defend the priority of the concept of epistemic virtue over the concepts of justification, knowledge, or truth, in ascending order of strength, just as an interesting virtue. .. conditions for epistemic value crucial My (Zagzebski’s) version of VE is explicitly modeled on virtue ethics.13 Like Code and Montmarquet, I think of intellectual virtues as traits such as intellectual autonomy and courage, intellectual carefulness and fairness, and open-mindedness, but like Sosa and Greco, I regard reliability as a component of virtue An intellectual virtue, like a moral virtue, has... imaginative or gripping, but the historian is doing something else as well, and without understanding that we cannot understand the virtues of the process And it seems impossible to imagine an understanding of that “something else” that does not explicitly or implicitly identify it as the concern to find truths about the past Without knowing that, we would not know what game is being played If this is indeed . alt="" Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility Abrol Fairweather Linda Zagzebski, Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS virtue epistemology Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility Edited. debate within VE in “Thin Concepts to the Rescue: Thinning the Concepts of Epistemic Justification and In- tellectual Virtue. ” She begins by examining the arguments of William Alston and Stewart. “belief from epistemic virtue by way of examining Aristotle’s distinction between virtue and action from virtue and Kant’s distinction between action from duty and action according to duty.