Epistemic Vice Rehabilitation
Saints and Sinners Zetetic Exemplarism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21314543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerry Dunne (0000-0002-0137-8027, Department of Global Diversity, Sustainability & Intercultural Education Marino Institute of Education Dublin, corresponding author), Alkis Kotsonis (0000-0003-2097-2627, University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-140 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2004 • E-ISSN: 1741-5446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/edth.12624 |
| OpenAlex | W4392468140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper proposes a novel educational approach to epistemic vice rehabilitation. Its authors Gerry Dunne and Alkis Kotsonis note that, like Quassim Cassam, they remain optimistic about the possibility of improvement with regard to epistemic vice. However, unlike Cassam, who places the burden of minimizing or overcoming epistemic vices and their consequences on the individual, Dunne and Kotsonis argue that vice rehabilitation is best tackled via the exemplarist animated community of inquiry zetetic principles and defeasible‐reasons‐regulated deliberative processes. The vice‐reduction method they propose is made up of four distinct yet complementary components: (1) positive exemplarism of epistemic virtue (saints), (2) negative exemplarism of epistemic vice (sinners), (3) direct teaching/instruction, and (4) cognitive apprenticeship. Dunne and Kotsonis argue that this pedagogical intervention appropriately considers learnings deriving from forensic scrutiny of both ideal and non‐ideal interpersonally calibrated zetetic features integral to knowledge acquisition as well as wider societal influences impacting the development of agents' epistemic character. It bridges research on vice epistemology (Cassam's obstructivist theory), social epistemology (corrupted social processes mitigating against vice rehabilitation), virtue epistemology, and moral exemplarism
Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Rehabilitation
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |