Knowledge, Belief, and Character Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology

by Axtell, Guy; Goldman, Alvin; Sosa, Ernest; Kornblith, Hilary; Greco, John; Dancy, Jonathan; Bonjour, Laurence; Zagrebsky, Linda; Driver, Julia; Montmarquet, James; Hookway, Chirstopher; Paul, Ricard; Axtell, Guy; Swank, Casey

• ISBN13: 9780847696529
• ISBN10: 0847696529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This is a unique collection of new and recently-published articles which debate the merits of virtue-theoretic approaches to the core epistemological issues of knowledge and justified belief. The readings all contribute to our understanding of the relative importance, for a theory of justified belief, of the reliability of our cognitive faculties and of the individuals responsibility in gathering and weighing evidence. Highlights of the readings include direct exchanges between leading exponents of this approach and their critics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Part I Reliability and Intellectual Virtue
Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology	3	(16)
Alvin Goldman
Reliabilism and Intellectual Virtue	19	(14)
Ernest Sosa
Three Forms of Virtue Epistemology	33	(8)
Ernest Sosa
Ever Since Descartes	41	(14)
Hilary Kornblith
Part II Knowledge and Skepticism
Virtue, Skepticism, and Context	55	(18)
John Greco
Supervenience, Virtues, and Consequences	73	(14)
Jonathan Dancy
Sosa on Knowledge, Justification, and ``Aptness''	87	(12)
Lawrence BonJour
Perspectives in Virtue Epistemology: A Response to Dancy and BonJour	99	(14)
Ernest Sosa
Part III Responsibility, Motives, and Consequences
From Reliabilism to Virtue Epistemology	113	(10)
Linda Zagzebski
Moral and Epistemic Virtue	123	(12)
Julia Driver
An ``Internalist'' Conception of Epistemic Virtue	135	(14)
James Montmarquet
Regulating Inquiry: Virtue, Doubt, and Sentiment	149	(14)
Christopher Hookway
Part IV Special Interest Topics in Virtue Theory
Critical Thinking, Moral Integrity, and Citizenship: Teaching for the Intellectual Virtues	163	(14)
Richard Paul
Virtue Theory and the Fact/Value Problem	177	(18)
Guy Axtell
Epistemic Vice	195	(10)
Casey Swank
Phronesis and Religious Belief	205	(16)
Linda Zagzebski
Index of Names	221	(2)
About the Contributors	223