This essay extends my side of a discussion begun earlier with Duncan Pritchard, the recent author of Epistemic Luck. Pritchard’s work contributes significantly to improving the “diagnostic appeal” of a neo-Moorean philosophical response to radical scepticism. While agreeing with Pritchard in many respects, the paper questions the need for his concession to the sceptic that the neo-Moorean is ca...

Ernest Sosa has long defended bi-level virtue epistemology on the grounds that it offers the best overall treatment of epistemology’s central issues. A surprising number of problems “yield to” the approach (Sosa 1991: 9). Sosa applies bi-level virtue epistemology to diagnose and bypass ongoing disputes in contemporary epistemology, including the disputes between foundationalists and coherentist...

Gabriele Contessa In this paper, I develop Mauricio Suárez’s distinction between denotation, epistemic representation, and faithful epistemic representation. I then outline an interpretational account of epistemic representation, according to which a vehicle represents a target for a certain user if and only if the user adopts an interpretation of the vehicle in terms of the target, which would...

Socialand virtue-epistemologies connect intellectual and moral concerns in ways significant for education and its theory. For most educationists, epistemic and ethical virtues are no longer dissociated. However, many political framings or operations of epistemic virtues and vices remain neglected in educational discourses. This article illustrates why a politicization of epistemic issues is rel...

In this article I ask whether elaborated and systematized delusions emerging in the context of schizophrenia have the potential for epistemic innocence. Cognitions are epistemically innocent if they have significant epistemic benefits that could not be attained otherwise. In particular, I propose that a cognition is epistemically innocent if it delivers some significant epistemic benefit to a g...

In this article, the logic and functions of character-trait ascriptions in ethics and epistemology is compared, and two major problems, the ‘‘generality problem’’ for virtue epistemologies and the ‘‘global trait problem’’ for virtue ethics, are shown to be far more similar in structure than is commonly acknowledged. Beyond the aporia of character-trait ascription and between the Scylla and Char...

A growing community investigates planning using dynamic epistemic logic. Another framework based on similar ideas is knowledgebased programs as plans. Here we show how actions correspond in the two frameworks. We finally discuss fragments of DEL planning obtained by the restriction of event models. Fragments are separated by virtue of their computational complexity.

Abstract Epistemic virtues are character traits conducive to principled ways of thinking, leading a life flourishing. Recent years have witnessed an emergence theoretical accounts describing how they develop. However, few if any studies conducted rigorous empirical investigation into the mechanisms intellectual virtue development. In this study, we review several significant frameworks before u...

While openmindedness is often cited as a paradigmatic example of an intellectual virtue, the connection between openmindedness and truth is tenuous. Several strategies for reconciling this tension are considered, and each is shown to fail; it is thus claimed that openmindedness, when intellectually virtuous, bears no interesting essential connection to truth. In the final section, the implicati...

Given the instrumental value of good collaborations for societal flourishing, educating collaborators (viz., agents who have motivation and ability to collaborate with others) should be one fundamental goals contemporary education. Still, fostering growth dispositions needed successful is not explicitly considered a first-rate pedagogical goal in most virtue education programs. To remedy this o...