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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 ... -
Sosa on How Competence Matters in Epistemology (Post)
How does this passage from Ernest Sosa's recent "How Competence Matters in Epistemology," bear upon the situationist criticism of virtue epistemology/character epistemology? Nevertheless, in general the fragility of an agent’s ... -
Philosophy News podcast interview with Jason Baehr, author of The Inquiring Mind (OUP, 2011) (Post)
There is an interesting new podcast interview in the Philosophy News series of interviews with authors of select new books. http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2011/12/30/Knowledge-Virtue-and-the-Intellect.aspx Besides the discussion of The Inquiring Mind:On Intellectual ... -
I. Inan's book, The Philosophy of Curiosity published (Taylor & Francis) (Post)
An interesting new book of interest to epistemology, philosophy of language, and psychology, by Ilhan Inan. See http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415500135/ Description In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of ... -
A. Gelfert's "Who is an Epistemic Peer?" (Post)
It is high time that the concept of an epistemic peer is given a virtue epistemological treatment. Arguably, the large differences between virtue-theoretic accounts of reasonable disagreement and extant accounts of ... -
T. Dougherty's "Re-Reducing Responsibility: Reply to Axtell" (Post)
Trent's Reply to my response to his "Reducing Responsibility" article is now published with free access at LOGOS & EPISTEME: ABSTRACT: In this brief reply to Axtell, I review some ... -
C. Kelp's "Extended Cognition and Robust Virtue Epistemology" (Post)
Christoph's recent paper is another contribution to the discussion of "Robust" virtue epistemology vs. "Moderate" virtue epistemology.DOI: 10.1007/s10670-011-9301-3 Abstract. Pritchard (Synthese 175,133–51, 2010) and Vaesen (Synthese forthcoming) have recently argued ... -
Pritchard and Kallestrup's "Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Twin Earth" (Post)
Abstract. With criticisms of Pritchard's earlier arguments for "anti-luck virtue epistemology" under attack in papers such as those by Adam Carter and Kristoph Kelp papers (highlighted here at JB), Pritchard and ... -
K. Kristjansson's "Situationism and the Concept of a Situation" published (Post)
Kristjan Kristjansson's paper is recently published at the European Journal of Philosophy and available free access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00474.x/pdf Abstract. The concept of a situation underlying the debate between moral situationists ... -
E. Slingerland's "The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics" published (Post)
E. Slingerland's "The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics" is now published in Ethics 121 (January 2011): 000–000. Abstract. This article argues that strong versions of the situationist critique ... -
C. Kulp's "In Defense of Virtue Epistemology" (Post)
Christoph Kelp's "In defence of virtue epistemology"is in Synthese (2011) 179:409–433 DOI 10.1007/s11229-009-9681-y Abstract. In a number of recent papers Duncan Pritchard argues that virtue epistemology’s central ability condition—one knows ... -
Van Zyl's "Right Action and the Non-Virtuous Agent" (Post)
Liezl van Zyl's new article is in Journal of Applied Philosophy 28 (1):80-92. Abstract. According to qualified-agent virtue ethics, an action is right if and only if it is what ... -
D. Mower's "Situationism and Confucian Virtue Ethics" (Post)
Deborah Mower's paper should be in the new edition of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Abstract. Situationist research in social psychology focuses on the situational factors that influence behavior. Doris ... -
Perfecting Virtue: A new collection by Jost and Wuerth (CUP) (Post)
"In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists ... -
B. Froding's "Cognitive Enhancement, Virtue Ethics and the Good Life" (Post)
Barbro Froding's paper is recenlty published in Neuroethics 4 (3):223-234" Abstract. This article explores the respective roles that medical and technological cognitive enhancements, on the one hand, and the moral ... -
M. Howes' "Managing Salience: The Importance of Intellectual Virtue in Analyses of Biased Scientific Reasoning.&quo (Post)
Moira Howes' article is recently published in Hypatia 26(4). Abstract. Feminist critiques of science show that systematic biases strongly influence what scientific communities find salient. Features of reality relevant to ... -
Lepock's "Unifying the Intellectual Virtues" Available (Post)
Chris' article, of which we were privy to an earler draft, has appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (1):106-128. Abstract. The intellectual virtues include two seemingly quite different types ... -
D. Leonard's "Intellectual Virtue and the Justification of Persons" (Post)
David H. Leonard's paper was recently published and available online with library subscription to Southern Journal of Philosophy 49 (4):368-390. Abstract. In this paper, I develop a model of personal ... -
Vaesen on the Credit Theory of Knowing (Post)
Also on the same general topic at Springerlink, though targeting the credit theory of knowledge more generally, is Abstract The Credit Theory ofKnowledge (CTK)—as expressed by such figures as John ... -
Carter on Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology (Post)
Adam Carter also has a new paper on this topic, available through SPringerlink. Unless I'm mistaken, Adam is here reversing his course, sine he previously argued in defense of Pritchard's dual ... -
Kelp on "Extended Cognition and Robust Virtue Epistemology " (Post)
Christopher Kelp's paper defending Robust VE is available through Springerlink. Abstract. Pritchard (Synthese 175,133–51, 2010) and Vaesen (Synthese forthcoming) have recently argued that robust virtue epistemology does not square with ... -
Misovic on "Armchair Luck: Aprioricity, Intellections, and Epistemic Luck" Avaliable (Post)
Nenad's new paper is available through Springerlink Abstract. The paper argues that there is such a thing as luck in acquisition of candidate a priori beliefs and knowledge, and that ... -
Call for Papers: The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition Conference at Edinburgh (Post)
The Epistemic Value Blog highlights this Conference at the University of Edinburgh May 25th and 26th, 2012. "We invite submissions of papers for presentation at the conference on these and ... -
Areteic Thought of the Day: John Dupre on the Demarcation Problem (Post)
Philosophy of science is an under-recognized area for virtue-theoretic work. We have featured debate over the applicability of Duhemian character epistemology to philosophy of science (Stump, Fairweather, Ivanova in JB Library). ... -
Trent Dougherty's "Reducing Responsibility: An Evidentialist Account of Epistemic Blame" Available (Post)
I am remiss in not having earleir supplied the publication details of Trent Dougherty's recent paper, "Reducing Responsibility: An Evidentialist Account of Epistemic Blame" (2011) the the *European Journal of Philosophy.* ...
Guy Axtell