Virtue Epistemology
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Virtue Epistemology

Motivation and Knowledge

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Virtue Epistemology

Motivation and Knowledge

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Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample. To date, no definition has been able to escape unscathed.

Moving away from debates about definitions, Virtue Epistemology shows what conditions are essential for knowledge and applies this account to different domains. It proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception.

Stephen Napier examines closely the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an account of knowledge wherein an agent must perform acts of virtue in order to get knowledge. In so doing, Napier provides answers to two key questions: 'what is knowledge?' and 'how do we get it?'

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2008
ISBN
9781441160539
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Competing Conceptions of a Cognitive Virtue
  5. 3. A Virtue Account of Perception
  6. 4. A Virtue Account of Memory
  7. 5. Testimony and Cognitive Virtue
  8. 6. Moral Expertise: The Role of Cognitive Virtues in Generating Knowledge
  9. 7. Cognitive Virtue, Divine Hiddenness, and Reasonable Belief or Nonbelief
  10. 8. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index