Tanesini on truth and epistemic vice

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Alessandra Taniesini's ‘The Mismeasure of the Self’ develops an internalist account epistemic vice. On this view, vices are grounded in attitudes towards self: fatalism, self-satisfaction, narcissistic infatuation, and self-abasement. The is insofar as it claims to ground both nature normativity vice within subject's skull. In paper, I argue against internalism: vices, show, need a normative hook outside skull explain their vicious nature. other words, ‘mis’ ‘mismeasure’ self demands externalist unpacking.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['0020-174X', '1502-3923']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2023.2167233