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virtue responsibilism
Also known as: virtue responsibilist
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Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 9 facts
claimLinda Zagzebski is a virtue responsibilist who defines intellectual virtues as traits of character.
claimIncorporating intellectual character traits into virtue reliabilism helps bridge the gap between virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism.
claimThe author contends that any viable version of virtue responsibilism must demonstrate that there is a unified set of substantive philosophical issues connected to intellectual virtues and that these issues are the proper subject matter of epistemology rather than ethics.
claimVirtue responsibilism defines intellectual virtues as good intellectual character traits, such as inquisitiveness, fair-mindedness, open-mindedness, intellectual carefulness, thoroughness, and tenacity.
claimVirtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism are not necessarily incompatible, as a virtue reliabilist can hold that a faculty-based approach is most promising for questions concerning the nature of knowledge and justification, while still maintaining that there are substantive epistemological questions to be pursued regarding the character traits that interest virtue responsibilists.
perspectiveThe viability of virtue responsibilism remains an open question because the theoretical details of Kvanvig's proposed approach have not been fully developed.
claimVirtue responsibilism faces a difficulty as an analysis of knowledge or justification because knowledge and justification are often acquired passively, making few demands on the character of the cognitive agent.
claimJames Montmarquet's view of epistemic justification fails to satisfy the second condition of virtue responsibilism.
claimThe distinction between virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism is not absolute, as the most plausible versions of virtue reliabilism incorporate many character traits of interest to virtue responsibilists.
Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 4 facts
claimVirtue responsibilism is a variety of virtue epistemology that contains normative elements and can provide a unified framework of normativity and value.
claimVirtue responsibilism emphasizes intellectual character traits—such as creativity, inquisitiveness, rational rigor, and honesty—as more virtuous than faculties like perception and memory.
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.
claimTheories of virtue responsibilism are generally normative in nature.
Epistemic Justification – Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology press.rebus.community 3 facts
perspectiveCritics of virtue responsibilism argue that the theory focuses on moral or pragmatic justification rather than epistemic justification because beliefs derived from intellectually virtuous character traits do not necessarily need to be likely to be true or based in evidence.
claimNotable approaches to explaining the epistemic standard include evidentialism, strong/modest foundationalism, coherentism, explanationism, infinitism, virtue responsibilism, virtue reliabilism, process reliabilism, and proper functionalism.
claimVirtue responsibilism argues that justified beliefs are the result of intellectually virtuous character traits.
Berit Brogaard, Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility philarchive.org 1 fact
claimVirtue epistemologies are traditionally divided into two distinct camps: virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism.