Expanding The Situationist Challenge To Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4773783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Alfano (0000-0001-5879-8033, Notre Dame University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 247 |
| Pages | 223-249 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00016.x |
| OpenAlex | W2162531836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
The last few decades have witnessed the birth and growth of both virtue epistemology and the situationist challenge to virtue ethics. It seems only natural that eventually we would see the situationist challenge to virtue epistemology. This article articulates one aspect of that new challenge by spelling out an argument against the responsibilist brand of virtue epistemology. The trouble can be framed as an inconsistent triad: (non‐skepticism) many people know quite a bit; (responsibilism) knowledge is true belief acquired and retained through the exercise of intellectual virtue; (epistemic situationism) most people do not possess the intellectual virtues countenanced by responsibilism. Non‐skepticism is a Moorean platitude we should aim to preserve at most if not all costs. I muster evidence from cognitive and social psychology to argue for epistemic situationism. If my argument is correct, responsibilism must be revised or rejected, and reliabilists should avoid incorporating responsibilist components into their theories
Argument (complex analysis) · Conversation · Epistemic virtue · Epistemology · Situationism · Skepticism · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Vice Explanations for Conspiracism, Fundamentalism, and Extremism
Structural white ignorance and education for racial justice
Is Situationism Conservatively Revisionary for Ethics
A Virtue Epistemological Approach to the Demarcation Problem
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories
The Vice of Nepotism
No Trespassing! Abandoning the Novice/Expert Problem
Epistemic Virtue and the Epistemology of Education
On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy
AI’s Epistemic Harm
Intellectual Humility as Attitude
Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology
Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory
Introduction to special issue
Kornblith versus Sosa on grades of knowledge
Meta-epistemic defeat
Degrees of epistemic dependence
The epistemology of thought experiments without exceptionalist ingredients
Cognitive bias, situationism, and virtue reliabilism
| Citations per year | 1.92 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |