The idea of Communitarianism with epistemic teachings, such as politics as virtue, the priority of good faith, respect for the cultural diversity of societies, is one of the most prominent intellectual currents of the present age. The hypothesis of this research is that based on the comparative analytical attitude of key societal teachings and the epistemic principles of Islam, one can find com...

Virtue-theoretic or “aretaic” theories analyse knowledge in terms of intellectual abilities, virtues, faculties etc. possessed by the epistemic subject (rather than the other way around).1 Recent theories of this variety are persuasively advertised as marking a distinct advance in our quest to understanding what knowledge amounts to. In particular, Greco (2010, 2009) and Sosa (2009, 2007) make ...

Abstract Virtue Reliabilism holds that knowledge is a cognitive achievement—an epistemic success creditable to the abilities of knowing subject. Beyond this consensus, there much disagreement amongst proponents virtue reliabilism about conditions under which credit-relation between an and person’s holds. This paper aims establish new attractive view crucial relation in terms difference-making. ...

Abstract The overlap between virtue epistemology and the philosophy of education has been dominated by discussions epistemic qualities good learners, that is, intellectual virtues must be nurtured in students. Not much said about teachers expressed virtue-theoretic terms. This paper offers a preliminary account such qualities, which are designated as pedagogical virtues. I use Battaly's plurali...

The dual aim of this article is to reveal and explain a certain phenomenon of epistemic injustice as manifested in testimonial practice, and to arrive at a characterisation of the anti-prejudicial intellectual virtue that is such as to counteract it. This sort of injustice occurs when prejudice on the part of the hearer leads to the speaker receiving less credibility than he or she deserves. It...

Over the past several decades, increasing overlap has emerged between projects in mainstream epistemology and corresponding projects in the philosophy of education. This is no doubt in part because epistemology’s focus has broadened far beyond the post-Gettier project of analysing propositional knowledge; front and centre on the contemporary epistemological agenda are philosophical problems ass...

Abstract This study explores a liberatory epistemic virtue that is suitable for good learning as form of liberating socially situated agents toward ideal virtuousness. First, I demonstrate the weak neutralization epistemically bad stereotypes an end learning. Second, argue represents virtue, value which derives from us learners blindness to freedom. Third, explicate two distinct forms transform...

• How can different and potentially incommensurable disciplinary ontologies be synthesized into an integrated set of metaphysical commitments? • How can different technical meanings be negotiated to yield a common understanding of the research landscape? • How can normative questions about intellectual and social virtue be answered in the multicultural context of cross-disciplinary research? • ...

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...

Ought you to cultivate your own virtue? Various philosophers have argued that there is something suspect about directing one’s ethical attention towards oneself in this way. These arguments can be divided between those that deem aiming at virtue for its own sake to be narcissistic and those that consider aiming at virtue for the sake of good behaviour to involve a kind of doublethink. Underlyin...