A Robust Enough Virtue Epistemology

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Robust Enough Virtue Epistemology

AU - Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando

PY - 2017/6/1

Y1 - 2017/6/1

N2 - What is the nature of knowledge? A popular answer to that long-standing question comes from robust virtue epistemology, whose key idea is that knowing is just a matter of succeeding cognitively—i.e., coming to believe a proposition truly—due to an exercise of cognitive ability. Versions of robust virtue epistemology further developing and systematizing this idea offer different accounts of the relation that must hold between an agent’s cognitive success and the exercise of her cognitive abilities as well as of the very nature of those abilities. This paper aims to give a new robust virtue epistemological account of knowledge based on a different understanding of the nature and structure of the kind of abilities that give rise to knowledge.

AB - What is the nature of knowledge? A popular answer to that long-standing question comes from robust virtue epistemology, whose key idea is that knowing is just a matter of succeeding cognitively—i.e., coming to believe a proposition truly—due to an exercise of cognitive ability. Versions of robust virtue epistemology further developing and systematizing this idea offer different accounts of the relation that must hold between an agent’s cognitive success and the exercise of her cognitive abilities as well as of the very nature of those abilities. This paper aims to give a new robust virtue epistemological account of knowledge based on a different understanding of the nature and structure of the kind of abilities that give rise to knowledge.

U2 - 10.1007/s11229-016-1043-y

DO - 10.1007/s11229-016-1043-y

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0039-7857

VL - 194

SP - 2147

EP - 2174

JO - Synthese

JF - Synthese

IS - 6

ER -