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Epistemic Virtues

A topic within Epistemology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

Reading on Epistemic Virtues

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2 works

Paper1980

The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge

Ernest Sosa

Argues the foundationalist-coherentist debate is a false dichotomy, and sketches a virtue-based alternative in which a belief is justified when it flows from a stable, reliable intellectual disposition.

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Book1996

Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge

Linda Zagzebski

Knowledge should be defined in terms of intellectual virtue rather than the reverse, modelling epistemology on virtue ethics so that a true belief counts as knowledge when it arises from virtuous cognitive character.

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