Jonathan Reibsamen

Columbia International University
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    The Five Characters at Essay’s End: Re-examining Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”
    with Alex Plato
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 96 (1): 81-111. 2022.
    Anscombe ends her seminal 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy” with a presentation of five characters, each answering an ancient (and contemporary) question as to “whether one might ever need to commit injustice, or whether it won’t be the best thing to do?” Her fifth character is the execrated consequentialist who “shows a corrupt mind.” But who are the first four characters? Do they “show a mind”? And what precisely is the significance (if any) of her presenting those five just then? In this p…Read more
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    The Five Characters at Essay’s End: Re-examining Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”
    with Alex Plato
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 96 (1): 81-111. 2022.
    Anscombe ends her seminal 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy” with a presentation of five characters, each answering an ancient (and contemporary) question as to “whether one might ever need to commit injustice, or whether it won’t be the best thing to do?” Her fifth character is the execrated consequentialist who “shows a corrupt mind.” But who are the first four characters? Do they “show a mind”? And what precisely is the significance (if any) of her presenting those five just then? In this p…Read more
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    Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology
    with John Greco
    In Nancy Snow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtue, Oxford University Press. pp. 725-746. 2018.
    According to reliabilist virtue epistemology, or virtue reliabilism, knowledge is true belief that is produced by intellectual excellence (or virtue), where intellectual excellence is understood in terms of reliable, truth-directed cognitive dispositions. This essay explains why virtue reliabilism is a form of epistemological externalism, is a moderately naturalized epistemology, and is distinct from virtue responsibilism. We explain virtue reliabilism’s answers to various forms of skepticism, …Read more