Tag Archives: responsibilism

WHY BE VIRTUOUS? TOWARDS A HEALTHY EPISTEMIC SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT (pages 163-183)

Dominik JARCZEWSKI ABSTRACT: The paper argues that, although the role of responsibilist epistemic virtues is unclear in the framework of traditional knowledge-centred individualist and idealised epistemology, it can be properly understood if one considers other epistemic goods and activities, adopts insights from social epistemology, and acknowledges the non-ideality of our epistemic world. It proposes to explain the value of epistemic …

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A VIRTUE THEORETIC ETHICS OF INTELLECTUAL AGENCY (pages 437-452)

Shane RYAN ABSTRACT: There is a well-established literature on the ethics of belief. Our beliefs, however, are just one aspect of our intellectual lives with which epistemology should be concerned. I make the case that epistemologists should be concerned with an ethics of intellectual agency rather than the narrower category of ethics of belief. Various species of normativity, epistemic, moral, …

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