Recent JB News & Discussion Posts
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International Conference on Virtue East and West (Post)
The philosophy department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is holding an International Conference on Virtue East and West 0n 20-22 May 2008. For more information about this splendid event, ... -
R. Pouivet's "Moral and Epistemic Virtues: a Thomistic Perspective" in JB Library (Post)
Roger shares his dynamic Plenary session paper from the recent"Epistemic Agency" Conference. Scroll down to the 'P's in JB Library to view and print. Abstract: "Virtue epistemology" designates an area ... -
Gaultier's "Context, Agency, and Knowledge" in JB Library (Post)
New JBer Benoit Gaultier's has sent us his draft paper as delivered his interesting draft paper as delivered last week at the Epistemic Agency Conference. Find it in JB Library. ... -
Symposium Papers on "Epistemology and Education" Available (Post)
JBers Jonathan Adler & Reza Lahroodi (with Frederick Schmitt) have papers available from Blackwell online, in the new edition of the journal Educational Theory. Jonathan's paper is "Surprise," and Reza's is ... -
Call for Papers: "Thick Concepts" Conference, UK July 2009. (Post)
THICK CONCEPTS University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 3rd-5th July, 2009. Supported by The Mind Association, and The University of Kent. Invited Speakers: Jonathan Dancy (Reading; Texas, Austin) Daniel Elstein ... -
Dougherty to Join JB Editors (Post)
Trent Dougherty has agreed to serve a stint on the JB Ed. board. He has areas both in Epistemology and in Philosophy of Religion. He has a paper forthcoming with Patrick ... -
"Thickies: An Account of Second-Wave Virtue Epistemology" draft available (Post)
My paper for the Epistemic Agency conference in Geneva next week is still very much a draft, but I've posted it to the JB Library for possible comments and discussion. Click ... -
Call for Papers: "The place of epistemic agents: Autonomy and dependence in epistemology" (Post)
Jesús Vega (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) sends us announcement of this October conference call for papers. It looks like a splendid conference in Madrid, with definate interest in virtue-epistemic perspectives on ... -
Virtue Epistemology and the elusive "because" (Post)
When virtue epistemologists offer analyses of knowledge, they usually give something that looks like two relata (a success element and an ability/virtue element) linked with the elusive 'because' or 'through.' There's ... -
Author-Meets-Critics session on Sandler's *Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach* (Post)
Jason Kawall sends us news of this dynamic session of Ron Sandler's new book, at the soon-upcoming APA Central. The International Society for Environmental Ethics will be holding an Author-Meets-Critics ... -
From the Doxastic Paradigm to Epistemology as Inquiry: Hookway and Morton on our 'Epistemological Futures' (Post)
The 'Epistemological Futures' book S. Hetherington edited (OUP, 2006) contains some articles I made earlier posts on. Here I want to talk about two other papers that have quite a bit ... -
"Epistemic Agency" Conference Program Now Available (Post)
Julien Dutant and Pascal Engel send us the full program for the upcoming Conference in Geneva, hosted by them and the *Episteme* Group. John Greco, whose extensive work is highlighted and ... -
Chris Lepock's "The Structure of Intellectual Virtue" available (Post)
An additional chapter of Chris' dissertation, and one that explains the relationship between reliability and higher-level intellectual virtues, is now available at his homepage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~clepock/lepock%20-%20ch%209.doc -
"Reconciling Reliability & Responsibility" Symposium Papers Available (Post)
Three papers with a distinctively responsibilist caste are now available for those with school subscription to Philosophical Papers (Volume 37, Number 1, March 2008). You may contact me if you don't. ... -
Two Papers by Alberto Masala on Naturalized Virtue Theory Available (Post)
New JBer Alberto Masala recently completed a dissertation on naturalizing virtue theory, and has several papers available online. The First is "Virtue Theory and its Normative Niche," which defends virtue theory ...created on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 10:03AM by
Guy Axtell
within D. Character & Social Psychology