Virtue Theoretic Epistemology

New Methods and Approaches

Christoph Kelp, John Greco

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108481212
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108580397
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

Virtue epistemology is one of the most flourishing research programmes in contemporary epistemology. Its defining thesis is that properties of agents and groups are the primary focus of epistemic theorising. Within virtue epistemology two key strands can be distinguished: virtue reliabilism, which focuses on agent properties that are strongly truth-conducive, such as perceptual and inferential abilities of agents; and virtue responsibilism, which focuses on intellectual virtues in the sense of character traits of agents, such as open-mindedness and intellectual courage. This volume brings together ten new essays on virtue epistemology, with contributions to both of its key strands, written by leading authors in the field. It will advance the state of the art and provide readers with a valuable overview of what virtue epistemology has achieved.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Virtue Theoretic Epistemology
• Chapter 1 Closed-Mindedness As an Intellectual Vice
• Chapter 2 Epistemic Virtues and Virtues with Epistemic Content
• Chapter 3 Difficulty and Knowledge
• Chapter 4 What Is Epistemic Entitlement?: Reliable Competence, Reasons, Inference, Access
• Chapter 5 Knowledge-Producing Abilities
• Chapter 6 Virtue Epistemology, Two Kinds of Internalism, and the Intelligibility Problem
• Chapter 7 Knowledge Is Extrinsically Apt Belief: Virtue Epistemology and the Temporal Objection
• Chapter 8 Explaining Knowledge
• Chapter 9 Anti-risk Virtue Epistemology
• Chapter 10 Responsibilism within Reason
• Index