Epistemic Idolatry and Intellectual Vice
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Abstract Following Robert Adams's account of idolatry, this paper develops the concept epistemic idolatry. Where there is devotion belonging to truth but given a particular good, we find With in hand, motivationalist virtue epistemologists gain two theoretical advantages: their list defective motives can include intellectual motivation excess without implausible claim that, intellectually, one be too motivated by truth; and disvalue many vices, including some putative counterexamples theory vice, explained terms
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عنوان ژورنال: American Philosophical Quarterly
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0003-0481', '2152-1123']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.59.3.01