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25Epistemic vice predicts acceptance of Covid-19 misinformationEpisteme 21 (1): 207-228. 2024.Why are mistaken beliefs about COVID-19 so prevalent? Political identity, education and other demographic variables explain only part of the differences between people in their susceptibility to COVID-19 misinformation. This paper focuses on another explanation: epistemic vice. Epistemic vices are character traits that interfere with acquiring, maintaining, and transmitting knowledge. If the basic assumption of vice epistemology is right, then people with epistemic vices such as indifference to …Read more
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7Organisational integrity as an epistemic virtueIn Muel Kaptein (ed.), Research Handbook on Organisation Integrity, Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024.Integrity is often conceived as a moral virtue that pertains to the coherence between one’s moral convictions and actions, as well as consistency in convictions over time. By contrast, I argue that integrity is primarily an epistemic virtue. To act with integrity, an individual or organisation must engage in responsible inquiry; that is, the collection, processing, sharing, and storage of information in ways that promote truth. Organisational structures such as division of labour and hierarchy p…Read more
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24Justice and HousingPhilosophy Compass 19 (3). 2024.This article surveys various topics that link questions about housing with considerations of economic justice. Housing has received increasing attention from philosophers within the last decade. In political philosophy, some aspects of a topic attract more attention than others. Presently, philosophical reflection focuses on the value of a home; homelessness; gentrification; segregation; and spatial justice, with a substantial body of literature developing on these interconnected themes. We high…Read more
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37The epistemic vices of corporationsSynthese 201 (5): 1-22. 2023.Vice epistemology studies the qualities of individuals and collectives that undermine the creation, sharing, and storing of knowledge. There is no settled understanding of which epistemic vices exist at the collective level. Yet understanding which collective epistemic vices exist is important, both to facilitate research on the antecedents and effects of collective epistemic vice, and to advance philosophical discussions such as whether some collective epistemic vices are genuinely collective. …Read more
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13Harming by Deceit: Epistemic Malevolence and Organizational WrongdoingJournal of Business Ethics 189 (3): 439-452. 2023.Research on organizational epistemic vice alleges that some organizations are epistemically malevolent, i.e. they habitually harm others by deceiving them. Yet, there is a lack of empirical research on epistemic malevolence. We connect the discussion of epistemic malevolence to the empirical literature on organizational deception. The existing empirical literature does not pay sufficient attention to the impact of an organization’s ability to control compromising information on its deception str…Read more
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5802Fake news, conspiracy theorizing, and intellectual viceIn Mark Alfano, Jeroen De Ridder & Colin Klein (eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology, Routledge. 2022.Across two studies, one of which was pre-registered, we find that a simple questionnaire that measures intellectual virtue and vice predicts how many fake news articles and conspiracy theories participants accept. This effect holds even when controlling for multiple demographic predictors, including age, household income, sex, education, ethnicity, political affiliation, religion, and news consumption. These results indicate that self-report is an adequate way to measure intellectual virtue and …Read more
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65The Development and Validation of the Epistemic Vice ScaleReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1-28. forthcoming.This paper presents two studies on the development and validation of a ten-item scale of epistemic vice and the relationship between epistemic vice and misinformation and fake news. Epistemic vices have been defined as character traits that interfere with acquiring, maintaining, and transmitting knowledge. Examples of epistemic vice are gullibility and indifference to knowledge. It has been hypothesized that epistemically vicious people are especially susceptible to misinformation and conspiracy…Read more
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13Dealing fairly with trade imbalances in monetary unionsPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 20 (1): 45-66. 2021.Politicians around the globe wrangle about how to deal with trade imbalances. In the Eurozone, members running a trade deficit accuse members running a surplus of forcing them into deficit. Yet pol...
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35Tax Competition and Global InterdependenceJournal of Political Philosophy 27 (4): 480-498. 2019.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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43Tax Competition and Global InterdependenceJournal of Political Philosophy 27 (4): 480-498. 2019.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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27The Ethics of Consumer Credit: Balancing Wrongful Inclusion and Wrongful ExclusionMidwest Studies in Philosophy 42 (1): 294-313. 2018.
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |