On Virtue, Credit and Safety

Safety, Virtue, Scepticism: Remarks on Sosa

Ernest Sosa has made and continues to make major contributions to a wide variety of topics in epistemology. In this paper I discuss some of his core ideas about the nature of knowledge and scepticism. I start with a discussion of and objections against the safety account of knowledge—a view he has championed and further developed over the years. I continue with some questions concerning the rol...

Mulla Sadra on Virtue and Action

This paper sheds light on the views of Mulla Sadra about virtue and action. The main question is how he explains the relationship, if any, between virtue and action. Mulla Sadra defines moral virtue as a settled inner disposition by which one acts morally, without need for any reflection or deliberation. This study seeks to explain how, according to Mulla Sadra, a virtue motivates the agent and...

Safety and Soundness and Compliance Issues on Credit Scoring Models

Credit scoring models, or score cards, can contribute to bank safety and soundness as long as bank management actively participates in the development, implementation, monitoring, and validation of the model. Operational factors, such as accurate implementation of the credit scoring model and adequate training of data input staff, also can have an impact on the effectiveness of models. Changes ...

Talking Virtue: professionalism and virtue ethics

The twentieth century phenomenon of professionalism had a major impact on the economy of nation states and has been recognised as a key element of post-industrial societies. As an anointed class, professionals reserved the right to prescribe their own roles and responsibilities. Critics of professional interests, however, have described professionals’ own definition of their roles and responsib...

Recent Work on Virtue Epistemology