Epistemic virtue and epistemic responsibility
Dialectica 55 (2):105–118 (2001)
| Abstract | In this paper, I propose a principle of doxastic rationality based on Bernard Williams's argument against doxastic voluntarism. This principle, I go on to show, undermines a number of notions of epistemic duty which have been put forth within the framework of virtue theory. I then suggest an alternative formulation which remains within the bounds of rationality allowed for by my principle. In the end, I suggest that the failure of the earlier formulations and the adoption of the latter tend to vindicate the initial grounding of virtue epistemology in reliabilist intuitions. (edited). | |||||||||
| Keywords | belief, epistemology, RESPONSIBILITY, virtue, williams b | |||||||||
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