In defence of virtue epistemology

Christoph Kelp

pp. 409-433

in: Synthese 179 (3), 2011.

Abstrakt

In a number of recent papers Duncan Pritchard argues that virtue epistemology’s central ability condition—one knows that p if and only if one has attained cognitive success (true belief) because of the exercise of intellectual ability—is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge. This paper discusses and dismisses a number of responses to Pritchard’s objections and develops a new way of defending virtue epistemology against them.

Cited authors

Pritchard Duncan