Virtue epistemology

Philosophy Compass 3 (4):639-663 (2008)
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What are the qualities of an excellent thinker? A growing new field, virtue epistemology, answers this question. Section I distinguishes virtue epistemology from belief-based epistemology. Section II explains the two primary accounts of intellectual virtue: virtue-reliabilism and virtue-responsibilism. Virtue-reliabilists claim that the virtues are stable reliable faculties, like vision. Virtue-responsibilists claim that they are acquired character traits, like open-mindedness. Section III evaluates progress and problems with respect to three key projects: explaining low-grade knowledge, high-grade knowledge, and the individual intellectual virtues.

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edition Battaly, Heather (2009) "A virtue epistemology: Apt belief and reflective knowledge, volume I • by Ernest Sosa". Analysis 69(2):382-385

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