Tag Archives: responsibilism

Oliver KLETZ ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to articulate an individual’s general capacity towards emotions with virtue epistemology. Using the contrasting frameworks of virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism, emotionality can be articulated, in different senses, as a faculty or a trait virtue, and assessed according to pre-existing criteria for making this distinction. Additionally, emotionality can be articulated within the context of …

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 …

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, …