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64Review of Robert C. Roberts, W. Jay wood, Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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189Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to PracticeJournal of Philosophy of Education 47 (2): 248-262. 2013.After a brief overview of what intellectual virtues are, I offer three arguments for the claim that education should aim at fostering ‘intellectual character virtues’ like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual honesty. I then go on to discuss several pedagogical and related strategies for achieving this aim
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231The inquiring mind: on intellectual virtues and virtue epistemologyOxford University Press. 2011.This book is the first systematic treatment of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that focuses on intellectual ...
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56Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology (edited book)Routledge. 2015.With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue epistemology, like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity, can help educators and students define and attain certain worthy but nebulous educational goals …Read more
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212A priori and a posterioriInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003.The terms "a priori" and "a posteriori" refer primarily to how or on what basis a proposition might be known. A proposition is knowable a priori if it is knowable independently of experience. A proposition is knowable a posteriori if it is knowable on the basis of experience. The a priori/a posteriori distinction is epistemological and should not be confused with the metaphysical distinction between the necessary and the contingent or the semantical or logical distinction between the analytic an…Read more
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750Is There a Value Problem?In Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic value, Oxford University Press. pp. 42--59. 2009.The value problem in epistemology is rooted in a commonsense intuition to the effect that knowledge is more valuable than true belief. Call this the “guiding intuition.” The guiding intuition generates a problem in light of two additional considerations. The first is that knowledge is (roughly) justified or warranted true belief.[1] The second is that on certain popular accounts of justification or warrant (e.g. reliabilism), its value is apparently instrumental to and hence derivative from the …Read more
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46Reply to ZagzebskiIn Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Blackwell. pp. 146. 2013.
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158Epistemic malevolenceMetaphilosophy 41 (1-2): 189-213. 2010.Abstract: Against the background of a great deal of structural symmetry between intellectual and moral virtue and vice, it is a surprising fact that what is arguably the central or paradigm moral vice—that is, moral malevolence or malevolence proper—has no obvious or well-known counterpart among the intellectual vices. The notion of "epistemic malevolence" makes no appearance on any standard list of intellectual vices; nor is it central to our ordinary ways of thinking about intellectual vice. I…Read more
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84On the reliability of moral and intellectual virtuesMetaphilosophy 38 (4): 456-470. 2007.I examine here whether reliability is a defining feature of (moral or intellectual) virtues. I argue (1) that reliability is not a defining feature of a virtue where virtues are conceived (as they often are) as “personal excellences,” but (2) that there is another (also intuitive and familiar) conception of a virtue according to which reliability is a defining feature. I also argue (3) that even on the former conception, a certain rational belief pertaining to reliability is essential and (4) th…Read more
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