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Virtue epistemology is fundamentally linked to understanding as it identifies the desire for understanding as a core motivation of intellectual virtue [1] and posits that understanding is a unique status achieved through virtuous intellectual acts [2]. Furthermore, the field is credited with renewing academic interest in the analysis of understanding [3].
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Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
perspectiveVirtue epistemologists argue that understanding is a special status that arises from acts of intellectual virtue, rather than just the communication of causal knowledge.
claimVirtue Epistemology facilitates the recovery of interest in and the analysis of understanding and wisdom.
Virtue epistemology - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy rep.routledge.com 1 fact
perspectiveProponents of virtue epistemology claim that it offers advantages such as bypassing disputes between foundationalists and coherentists regarding cognitive structure, avoiding skeptical worries, avoiding the impasse between internalism and externalism, and broadening the range of epistemological inquiry to include values like understanding and wisdom.
Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
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.