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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski centers her virtue epistemology on the pursuit of truth, identifying it as a final intellectual end [1], a core motivation for intellectual virtue [2], and a necessary component of an act of intellectual virtue [3]. Furthermore, she links truth to her analysis of knowledge and Gettier cases {fact:1, fact:2} and defines intellectual courage through the persistent desire for truth {fact:3, fact:6}.
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Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 5 facts
claimLinda Zagzebski characterizes Gettier cases as situations where the connection between the warrant condition and the truth condition for knowledge is severed by bad luck and restored by good luck.
claimLinda Zagzebski categorizes intellectual ends into ultimate or final ends, such as truth and understanding, and proximate or immediate ends.
quoteLinda Zagzebski defines an "act of intellectual virtue" as an act that "gets everything right": it involves having an intellectually virtuous motive, doing what an intellectually virtuous person would do in the situation, and reaching the truth as a result.
claimLinda Zagzebski claims that her analysis of knowledge is immune to Gettier counterexamples because of the tight connection between the warrant and truth conditions for knowledge.
claimLinda Zagzebski defines an intellectually courageous person as someone motivated to persist in beliefs or inquiries out of a desire for truth and who is reliably successful in that persistence.
Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski includes the notion of "reliable success" in her model of virtue epistemology to address the problem of well-intentioned agents who desire truth but employ ineffective methods to pursue it.
claimIn Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski's model of virtue epistemology, the "characteristic motivation" of an intellectual virtue is the desire for truth, understanding, and other forms of cognitive contact with reality.