Abstract Ignorance is commonly assumed to be a lack of knowledge in Plato’s Socratic dialogues. I challenge that assumption. In the Protagoras , ignorance conceived substantive, structural psychic flaw—the soul’s domination by inferior elements are nature fit ruled. Ignorant people characterized both false beliefs about evaluative matters specific situations and an enduring deception their own ...

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 ho...

Abstract This paper offers an account of collective epistemic vices, which we call the “group identification account”. The group attributes vices to groups that are constituted by identification”, is a primitive and non-doxastic self-understanding as member (Turner, 1982; Brewer, 1991; Brewer & Gardner, 1996; Pacherie, 2013; Salice Miyazono, 2020). distinctive feature it enables us attribut...

The authors propose that people use 2 routes in justifying self-gratification: 1st through hard work or excellence (entitlement) and the 2nd through the attainment of vices without depleting income. This framework was tested using real tasks and choices adopted from prior research on self-control. The results indicate that (a) higher effort and (bogus) excellence feedback increase preferences f...

According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in hum...