Forgiveness and the Repairing of Epistemic Trust

Abstract The epistemic relevance of forgiveness has been neglected by both the discussion in moral psychology and social epistemology generally. Moral fails to account for wrongs way that general have implications. Social epistemology, its part, neglects trust is not only conferred but repaired. In this essay, I show repair through necessary economy knowledge fallible persons like us. Despite fact never included on lists important intellectual virtues or activities, it vital our lives as knowers. Likewise, an dimension importantly incomplete.