Laura Frances Callahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Frances Callahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Callahan |
| SIGNATURE | CALLAHAN L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers University New Brunswick, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epistemic authenticity
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but requires recognition of a new norm or virtue—namely, “epistemic authenticity”—which is the central virtue i…
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology, the first to appear on the topic, introduces the current state of religious epistemology and provides a discussion of fundamental topics related to the epistemology of religious belief. Its wide-ranging chapters not only survey fundamental topics, but also develop non-traditional epistemic theories and explore the religious epistemology endorsed by non-Western traditions. In the first section, Fai…
Intellectual humility
Moral Testimony
Why is there a felt asymmetry between cases in which agents defer to testifiers for certain moral beliefs, and cases in which agents defer on many other matters? One explanation influential in the literature is that having understanding of a proposition is both (a) in tension with acquiring belief in the proposition by deferring to another's testimony and (b) distinctively important when it comes to moral propositions, as compared with what we mi…
Moral Testimony
Why is there a felt asymmetry between cases in which agents defer to testifiers for certain moral beliefs, and cases in which agents defer on many other matters? One explanation influential in the literature is that having understanding of a proposition is both (a) in tension with acquiring belief in the proposition by deferring to another's testimony and (b) distinctively important when it comes to moral propositions, as compared with what we mi…
Intellectual humility
Moral Testimony
Why is there a felt asymmetry between cases in which agents defer to testifiers for certain moral beliefs, and cases in which agents defer on many other matters? One explanation influential in the literature is that having understanding of a proposition is both (a) in tension with acquiring belief in the proposition by deferring to another's testimony and (b) distinctively important when it comes to moral propositions, as compared with what we mi…
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology, the first to appear on the topic, introduces the current state of religious epistemology and provides a discussion of fundamental topics related to the epistemology of religious belief. Its wide-ranging chapters not only survey fundamental topics, but also develop non-traditional epistemic theories and explore the religious epistemology endorsed by non-Western traditions. In the first section, Fai…
Intellectual humility
Epistemic authenticity
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but requires recognition of a new norm or virtue—namely, “epistemic authenticity”—which is the central virtue i…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work)