We consider the problem of moral disjunction in professional and business activities from a virtue-ethical perspective. Moral arises when behavioral demands role conflict with personal morality; it is an important because most people modern societies occupy several complex roles that can cause this clash to occur. argue disjunction, psychological mechanisms use cope it, are problematic they mak...

I argue against the orthodox view of the relationship between propositional and doxastic justification. The view under criticism is: if p is propositionally justified for S in virtue of S’s having reason(s) R, and S believes p on the basis of R, then S’s belief that p is doxastically justified. I then propose and evaluate alternative accounts of the relationship between propositional and doxast...

I argue against the orthodox view of the relationship between propositional and doxastic justification. The view under criticism is: if p is propositionally justified for S in virtue of S’s having reason(s) R, and S believes p on the basis of R, then S’s belief that p is doxastically justified. I then propose and evaluate alternative accounts of the relationship between propositional and doxast...

Free will, which directly pertains to ethical choices, has for long been a point of contention in the spheres of philosophy and the sciences, the latter putting forth chiefly a naturalist account of it, a thinking apparatus which, permeated by evolutionary discourse, privileges the human organism over the non-human by virtue of, among other things, a fundamental epistemic capacity to form conce...

Physical theories continue to be interpreted in terms of particles. The idea of a particle required modification with the advent of quantum theory, but remains central to scientific explanation. Particle ontologies also have the virtue of explaining basic epistemic features of the world, and so remain appealing for the scientific realist. However, particle ontologies are untenable when coupled ...

In this paper, we propose formulations and algorithms for robust portfolio optimization under both aleatory uncertainty (i.e., natural variability) and epistemic uncertainty (i.e., imprecise probabilistic information) arising from interval data. Epistemic uncertainty is represented using two approaches: (1) moment bounding approach and (2) likelihood-based approach. This paper first proposes a ...

In “The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis,” Jonathan Lear argues that Socrates' conversations seek to draw out an irony exists within human virtue. this commentary, I suggest should identify with aporia align his interpretation Plato’s texts capture the epistemic dimension of method. The dialogue is a form inquiry encourages interlocutor carry on inquiry. grasps life’s principle by recognising...

Abstract A number of philosophers have thought that fair lotteries over countably infinite sets outcomes are conceptually incoherent by virtue violating countable additivity. In this article, I show a qualitative analogue argument generalizes to an against the conceptual coherence much wider class lotteries—including continuous uniform distributions. argue result suggests no more problematic th...

Cognitive integration is a defining yet overlooked feature of our intellect that may nevertheless have substantial effects on the process of knowledge-acquisition. To bring those effects to the fore, I explore the topic of cognitive integration both from the perspective of virtue reliabilism within externalist epistemology and the perspective of extended cognition within externalist philosophy ...