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New Funding Initiative: "Intellectual Humility: Psychological and Evolutionary Dynamics” (Post)
Just announced is a new grant competition with funding for up to 16 research projects. I do not see a website yet but below is the first part with crucial information, ... -
CALL FOR PAPERS: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly (Post)
Editor Mark Sagoff has put out this call for papers: ippp.gmu.edu/pppq.html The Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, now at George Mason University, is relaunching its journal Philosophy and ... -
Bled Epistemology Conference 2011 papers in Acta Analytica (Post)
The newest edition of Acta Analytica has multiple papers from last summer's Bled conference, themed upon "Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom." Included are papers by Nenad Miščević, Sarah Wright, Jason Baehr, Georgi ... -
Areteic Thought of the Day: Virtue Theory and Scientific Pluralism (Post)
"Philosophers of science have begun to advance pluralism at the metascientific level, most notably with respect to epistemic virtues. A variety of views regarding the role, status, and identity of scientific ... -
Post Doc for 2012 with The Character Project (Post)
This post may have already been filled, but I came across the announcemnt on their site: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NC. One year non-renewable Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy beginning fall ... -
Ryan Patrick Hanley on "Rousseau's Virtue Epistemology" (Post)
Ryan Hanley has a very interesting paper just pulbished in Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 2 (2012) 239–263. It offers some directed ways in which a virtue ... -
Allan Hazlett on "Higher-Order Epistemic Attitudes and Intellectual Humility" (Post)
Hazlett has posted a draft of his forthcoming paper in Episteme (U. of Edinburgh). Access it at http://philpapers.org/archive/HAZIHA.5.pdf Abstract. Recent discussions of the epistemology of disagreement (Kelly 2005, Feldman ... -
John Greco on "A (Different) Virtue Epistemology" (Post)
John Greco's new paper has appeared at Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00567.x/abstract Abstract. Section 1 articulates a genus-species claim: that knowledge is a kind of success from ability. ... -
Discussion Paper: Axtell on "The DIalectics of Objectivity" (Post)
One topic virtue epistemologists have not much debated is whether intellectual and epistemic virtues are universal or whether they have a history and the epistemic values and virtues recognized in science ... -
Herman Paul on "Distance and Self-Distanciation: Intellectual Virtue and Historical Method around 1900" (Post)
Paul's paper is recently published in History and Theory, Theme Issue 50 (December 2011), 104-116. Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2011.00606.x/pdf Abstract. What did “historical distance” mean to historians in the Rankean tradition? ... -
Fairweather on "The Epistemic Value of Good Sense" (Post)
I don't think I have yet linked the final published version of Abrol Fairweather's paper, "The Epistemic Value of Good Sense" which follow upon and debate Stump's earlier interpretation of Pierre ... -
Ferkany and Whyte on "The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education" (Post)
Matt Ferkany & Kyle Powys Whyte have a 2011 paper I hadn't previously seen, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics: The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of ... -
Special Issue of Business Ethics Quarterly: Virtue and the Common Good in Business and Management (Post)
Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2012 Reviving Tradition: Virtue and the Common Good in Business and Management Guest Editors: Alejo José G. Sison, University of Navarre Edwin M. Hartman, New ... -
Cafaro & Sandler's New Collection "Virtue Ethics and the Environment" (Post)
This collection from Springer contains many new articles on EVE. Hardcover, ISBN 978-94-007-0226-4 http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/book/978-94-007-0226-4 Environmental virtue ethics has become a vital part of the environmental philosophy landscape. Whether as ... -
Lammenranta on "Disagreement, Skepticism, and the Dialectical Conception of Justification" (Post)
Markus Lammenranta's paper on the epistemology of disagreement is published in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Number 1: Abstract: "It is a common intuition that at ... -
Areteic Thought of the Day: Ernan McMullin on "The Virtues of a Good Theory" (Post)
“Discussion of theory virtues exposes a fault-line in philosophy of science that [separates] very different visions of what the natural sciences are all about….Calling them ‘virtues’ rather than ‘values’ draws attention ... -
Empirical Adequacy vs. Cognitive Values and Virtues in Science, or Empirical Adequacy as but one Theory Virtue among Oth (Post)
Is empirical adequacy always the ‘thin’ notion associated with a test (i.e., a measure invoking no theory or character virtues), or does it in function in scientific debates function more like ... -
Uri D. Leibowitz on "Particularism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" (Post)
Uri D. Leibowitz has an new article in Journal of Moral Philosophy. Abstract. In this essay I offer a new particularist reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that the ... -
Daniel Star on "Two Levels of Moral Thinking" (Post)
Daniel Star's has a paper forthcoming in the Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics: "The purpose of this paper is to introduce a two level account of moral thinking that, unlike ... -
Christian Miller on "Integrity" (Post)
Christian Miller has an article on Integrity in Blackwell International Christian Encyclopedia of Ethics. Blackwell. Abstract. Integrity is one of the leading normative concepts employed in our society. We frequently ... -
Liezl van Zyl on "Qualified-agent Virtue Ethics" (Post)
Liezl van Zyl's article has recently appeared in South African Journal of Philosophy, 2011, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p219-228. Abstract: Qualified-agent virtue ethics provides an account of right action in ... -
John Greco's "Recent Work on Testimonial Knowledge" (Post)
VIrtue epistemologies have been major contributors in the recent interest in testimonial knowledge. John Greco reviews a variety of perspectives on testimonial knowledge in his new article in American Philosophical Quarterly, ... -
Colin Farrelly on "Virtue Epistemology and the ‘Epistemic Fitness’" (Post)
Colin Farrelly's new article is available online: Abstract. In this article I explore three distinct advantages of linking virtue epistemology to an epistemic defence of democracy. First, because intellectual agents ... -
My 'Fast and Frugal" Rebuttal of 'Epistemic Situationism' (Post)
Here is a key short section of the paper I will present this week in a panel session on "Does Situationism Threaten Virtue Epistemologies." Mark Alfano and John Doris & Lauren ... -
Fairweather & Alfani discuss the Situationist Challenge to VE on PHILOSOPHY TV (Post)
Go to http://philostv.com/ to view the most recent debate there between Mark Alfano and Abrol Fairweather on "extending the situationist challenge to virtue epistemology: "A long line of virtue ethicists ...
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