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256Permissivism and Intellectual VirtueInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This paper argues for a permissivism of personal rationality, a rationality concerning the epistemic evaluation of persons. I work from the perspective of virtue epistemology where the standards of evaluation are the intellectual character virtues. On this picture, an agent is personally rational in having a doxastic attitude when having it is the result of some exemplification of an intellectual virtue. Permissive cases arise when the emotional components of intellectual virtues conflict, makin…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Epistemology |
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Philosophy of Religion |
Virtue Ethics |
Virtue Epistemology |
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