Here I advance a unified account of the structure of the epistemic normativity of assertion, action, and belief. According to my Teleological Account, all of these are epistemically successful just in case they fulfill the primary aim of knowledgeability, an aim which in turn generates a host of secondary epistemic norms. The central features of the Teleological Account are these: it is compact...

In Zhuangzi’s philosophy, the intellectual virtues of humility and open-mindedness are best understood in context his epistemic perspectivism. The method, which urges knowers to pursue various diverse points view incorporate them into a broad perspective, is justified by second-order realization that all perspectives partial limited. This turn meta-virtue humility, defined as disposition become...

Abstract My main aim in this paper is to examine whether gossip should be categorized as an epistemically valuable character trait. Gossip satisfies the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for acquired trait classified intellectual virtue under responsibilist understanding of concept virtue. The excellent gossiper (i) motivated acquire epistemic goods through gossiping, (ii) reliably su...

Discussions of diversity tend to paint a mixed picture the practical and epistemic value diversity. While there are expansive detailed accounts cognitive diversity, explorations identity typically focus on its as source or cause The resulting which only possesses derivative is unsatisfactory fails account for some central benefits. In response, I propose that collective virtue epistemology offe...

Beliefs, we’ll assume, come in degrees. As a short-hand, we’ll refer to these graded doxastic attitudes as credences, and to the totality of an agent’s credences as their credal state. Plausibly, there are certain epistemically good-making features that an agent’s credal state may have. Credences, for example, may be closer or further from the truth, and it is at least prima facie plausible tha...

Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...

Abstract This paper discusses the virtue epistemology literature on epistemic emotions and challenges individualist, unworldly account of emotions. It argues that can be truth-motivating if embedded in co-inquiry cultures, namely virtuous cultures valorise participatory processes inquiry as truth-conducive. Co-inquiry are seen playing a constitutive role shaping, developing, regulating Using ke...

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...

Hume is a naturalist in many different respects and about many different topics; this paper argues that he is also a naturalist about intentionality and representation. It does so in the course of answering four questions about his theory of mental representation: (1) Which perceptions represent? (2) What can perceptions represent? (3) Why do perceptions represent at all? (4) How do perceptions...