Virtue-theoretic epistemology : new methods and approaches / edited by Christoph Kelp, John Greco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelp, Christoph, editor.

Greco, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtue epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Virtue theoretic epistemology / Christoph Kelp

Closed-mindedness as an intellectual vice / Heather Battaly

Epistemic virtues and virtues with epistemic content / Cameron Boult, Christoph Kelp, Johanna Schnurr, Mon Simion

Difficulty and knowledge / Fernando Broncano-Berrocal

What is epistemic entitlement? Reliable competence, reasons, inference, access / Peter Graham

Knowledge-producing abilities / John Greco

Virtue epistemology, two kinds of internalism, and the intelligibility problem / Jonathan Kvanvig

Knowledge is extrinsically apt belief. Virtue epistemology and the temporal objection / Anne Meylan

Explaining knowledge / Alan Millar

Anti-risk virtue epistemology / Duncan Pritchard

Responsibilism within reason / Kurt Sylvan.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-66189-0

1-108-58039-4

1-108-66640-X