concept

virtue

Also known as: virtues

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Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 9, 1999 11 facts

referenceThe book 'Knowledge, Truth and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility and Virtue', edited by Matthias Steup and published in 2001 by Oxford University Press, covers topics of epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue.

claimJohn Greco argues that knowers deserve credit for knowledge because they believe the truth because of their virtue.

claimKing (2014a) defends responsibilism by arguing that, based on Linda Zagzebski's (1996) version of virtue epistemology, knowledge does not need to manifest virtue but only needs to arise from the type of motivated inquiry a virtuous person would engage in.

claimMark Alfano argues that if people's cognitive dispositions do not qualify as virtues because they are unreliable or irresponsible, the true beliefs produced by those dispositions will not count as knowledge.

claimAlfano (2016a) and Alfano and Skorburg (2017) argue that pairs of agents can mutually constitute each other's character through dynamic interactions involving interlocking virtues.

claimDuncan Pritchard argues that luck and virtue are orthogonal dimensions of epistemic evaluation, while J. Adam Carter argues that knowledge must be due to virtue more than luck, rather than virtue rather than luck.

claimHeather Battaly (2015) argues that debates over which traits constitute the 'real' virtues are counterproductive because there are many ways to excel and flourish intellectually.

perspectiveBenjamin R. Sherman argues in his 2016 article 'There’s no (testimonial) justice: Why pursuit of a virtue is not the solution to epistemic injustice' that focusing on the pursuit of virtue is not an effective solution to the problem of epistemic injustice.

claimMany virtues are emotional dispositions, although they also involve behavior in addition to emotion.

perspectiveJonathan Kvanvig (1992) argues that virtue epistemology will flourish only by relinquishing the Cartesian epistemological project and instead focusing on the role that virtues play in training and education.

claimPhilosophers including Axtell & Carter (2008), McDowell (1994), Roberts & Wood (2007), and Zagzebski (1996, 2009) argue that epistemological terms like 'knowledge', 'evidence', 'justification', 'duty', and 'virtue' cannot be adequately defined or fully explained in purely non-normative vocabulary.

Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu John Greco, John Turri · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 9, 1999 7 facts

referenceMiranda Fricker published 'Epistemic Injustice and a Role for Virtue in the Politics of Knowing' in Metaphilosophy in 2003, discussing the role of virtue in the context of epistemic injustice.

claimVirtue contextualism posits that knowledge-attributions are context-sensitive because they are a species of explanatory-talk, and saying "S knows" is equivalent to saying "S believes the truth because of her virtue."

claimJonathan Kvanvig argues that virtues are essential to understanding cognitive development and learning, which occur over time through processes such as imitating virtuous agents and learning from cautionary tales of vice.

claimJonathan Kvanvig argues that virtues are essential for characterizing cognitive ideals, asserting that one method of organizing information is superior to another if it aligns with how an intellectually virtuous person would organize it in those circumstances.

claimMark Alfano suggests that because emotions are easier to individuate than virtues, it is helpful to index virtues to the emotions they govern.

quoteAdam Morton states: “the words often do triple duty. Character links to virtue links to emotion”.

referenceJulia Driver published 'The Virtues of Ignorance' in the Journal of Philosophy in 1989, which examines the concept of virtues in relation to ignorance.

Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press Jul 24, 2024 3 facts

claimVirtues, expertise, and skills are conceptualized as acquired traits of character that facilitate the acquisition, maintenance, and transmission of knowledge and other epistemic goods.

claimThe virtue-as-skill hypothesis argues for collapsing virtues, expertise, and skills into a single category, while other theorists argue that virtues require a motivational component in addition to skills.

claimEpistemic traits are traditionally conceived of as virtues, vices, expertise, and skills.

Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 3 facts

quoteLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski defines virtues as "a deep and enduring acquired excellence of a person, involving a characteristic motivation to produce a certain desired end and reliable success in bringing about that end."

claimVirtue epistemologists are divided between "virtue reliabilist" accounts, which define virtues as reliably functioning cognitive faculties, and "virtue responsibilist" accounts, which emphasize the responsible epistemic conduct of the agent.

claimErnest Sosa suggested in a paper that virtue might resolve the intractable disputes between coherentists and foundationalists.

Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 1 fact

claimTraditional meditation practice emphasizes mental development, specifically the cultivation of well-being, virtue, and deep familiarity with one's inner mental landscape and behavioral patterns.

Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

claimLinda Zagzebski claims that all virtues consist of two main components: a motivation component and a success component.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences sk.sagepub.com SAGE Publications 1 fact

claimVirtue epistemologists define one central class of virtues as the subject's truth-conducively reliable doxastic dispositions, which are dispositions that enable the subject to effectively detect and endorse the truth.

Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Matthias Steup, Ram Neta · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dec 14, 2005 1 fact

referenceLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski authored the book 'Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge', published by Cambridge University Press in 1996.

Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right? - TheCollector thecollector.com The Collector Nov 9, 2023 1 fact

claimSocrates' enlightened rationalism is characterized by a dialogic skill used to arrive at clear definitions of terms, driven by the conviction that virtues are obtainable only through knowledge.

Virtue Epistemology, Anyone? - The Philosophers' Magazine - philosophersmag.com The Philosopher's Magazine 1 fact

claimIn a pure virtue theory, the concept of a right act is defined in terms of the concept of a virtue or a component of virtue, such as motivation, and the property of rightness emerges from the inner traits of persons.

Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Apr 1, 2021 1 fact

referenceRobert J. Howell authored the article "Google Morals, Virtue, and the Asymmetry of Deference," published in the 2014 issue of "Noûs."

Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com Capturing Christianity Dec 11, 2019 1 fact

claimDecisions to sacrifice personal pleasure or undergo pain for the sake of others provide a method for developing and exercising virtue.