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Jul 9, 1999 · Virtue Epistemology. Contemporary virtue epistemology (hereafter ‘VE’) is a diverse collection of approaches to epistemology. At least two central tendencies are discernible among the approaches. First, they view epistemology as a normative discipline. Second, they view intellectual agents and communities as the primary focus of epistemic ...
- Reliabilist Epistemology
In particular, one of its central theoretical notions, that...
- Ethics: Virtue
Rather, virtues and vices will be foundational for virtue...
- Justification, Epistemic: Internalist Vs. Externalist Conceptions Of
Epistemic Justification, p. 191.) These other justified...
- Reliabilist Epistemology
Mar 21, 2016 · Vice epistemology is the philosophical study of the nature, identity, and epistemological significance of intellectual vices. Such vices include gullibility, dogmatism, prejudice, closed-mindedness, and negligence. These are intellectual character vices, that is, intellectual vices that are also character traits.
Apr 30, 2018 · Broadly, Kidd notes that vice epistemology is devoted to three sorts of issues: first, to foundational issues concerning the nature and structure of epistemic vices; second, to studies of specific epistemic vices, such as epistemic malevolence (Baehr 2011), and other vices we examine below; and third, to applied vice epistemology, which explores how epistemic vices manifest in specific ...
- Christopher Baird, Thomas S. Calvard
- 2019
Feb 28, 2022 · Vice epistemology is the study of the “nature, identity and epistemological significance of intellectual vices” (Cassam, 2016, p. 159). It involves identifying and analyzing certain character traits, attitudes and/or modes of thinking that can account for imperfect epistemic states (e.g., false beliefs, deficiency of epistemic goods, etc.).
Jul 19, 2019 · The publication of Cassam’s Vices of the Mind is a landmark in the study of epistemic vices. This is the first monograph exclusively dedicated to the topic; it is likely to set the agenda for the field for many years to come. This slim volume exhibits many virtues. It carefully lays out a clear and distinctive account of the heterogeneous ...
- Alessandra Tanesini
- 2020
Nov 29, 2022 · This bibliography will cover a range of central issues in the philosophical reflection on epistemic virtues and vices, and lay out some of the central views, monographs, edited collections, and articles in the field. Two main approaches to the nature of epistemic virtue have come to occupy central roles: views that take something like skills ...
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Abstract. This chapter offers an analysis of often-neglected conceptions of vice. The argument proceeds in three stages. In the opening section, two familiar conceptions of virtue, and their corresponding conceptions of vice, are introduced. According to the first, virtues produce good effects, and vices produce bad effects.
