Pritchard on ignorance and normativity

There is a debate on the nature of ignorance in contemporary epistemology. The standard view holds that lack knowledge, while new contends true belief. Rather than taking side this dispute, Pritchard recently offers proposal according to which essentially involves not just absence certain epistemic good, but also an intellectual failing inquiry. We argue Pritchard’s advances discussion by incorporating insight from virtue epistemology, and hence normative dimension properly noticed. Crucially, no longer mere static cognitive state, reflects quality inquiry inquirers’ obligations. However, faces two problems. First, current formulation incomplete so it cannot ground blame requires. More details must be filled in. Second, his would label all as normatively negative, therefore locutions such virtuous ignorance, blameless positive value wrong.