The recent literature on the theory of knowledge has taken a distinctive turn by focusing on the role of the cognitive and intellectual virtues in the acquisition of knowledge. The main contours and motivations for such virtue-theoretic accounts of knowledge are here sketched and it is argued that virtue epistemology in its most plausible form can be regarded as a refined form of reliabilism, a...

comparison of mula sadra’s epistemology theory and virtual epistemology theories of zagzebski and platinga infers that the former’s theory can be categorized as a virtual epistemology. platinga believes in virtue of forming faculties and zagzebski believes in function of intellectual power in forming episteme. in fact, both of them believe is some aspects of the elements effective in formation ...

Over the past several decades, increasing overlap has emerged between projects in mainstream epistemology and corresponding projects in the philosophy of education. This is no doubt in part because epistemology’s focus has broadened far beyond the post-Gettier project of analysing propositional knowledge; front and centre on the contemporary epistemological agenda are philosophical problems ass...

The dual aim of this article is to reveal and explain a certain phenomenon of epistemic injustice as manifested in testimonial practice, and to arrive at a characterisation of the anti-prejudicial intellectual virtue that is such as to counteract it. This sort of injustice occurs when prejudice on the part of the hearer leads to the speaker receiving less credibility than he or she deserves. It...

• How can different and potentially incommensurable disciplinary ontologies be synthesized into an integrated set of metaphysical commitments? • How can different technical meanings be negotiated to yield a common understanding of the research landscape? • How can normative questions about intellectual and social virtue be answered in the multicultural context of cross-disciplinary research? • ...

In Eudemian Ethics VIII.3, Aristotle treats a virtue that he calls kalokagathia, “nobility-and-goodness.” This appears to be quite important, and even identifies it with “perfect virtue” (EE 1249a17). makes puzzling the Nicomachean Ethics, text largely parallels does not discuss kalokagathia at all. I argue reason for this difference has do role intellectual practical wisdom (phronêsis) plays i...

Nine articles appear in this special issue of The Journal Moral Education. Each is the product a team multidisciplinary scholars who have researched topics related to self, virtue, and public life. essays bring fresh perspectives on civic virtues self studies that are conceptually grounded empirically informed. They fore novel ideas about what can count as virtue or enhance participation, for e...

There are two aims of the paper. The first is to critically analyse claim that hope can be regarded as an intellectual virtue, proposed by Nancy E. Snow (2013) in her recent account set within project regulative epistemology. second aim explore problem rationality hope. Section one paper explains different interpretations key notion and discusses certain features found hope-that hope-in. addres...