Ernie Sosa’s unique brand of performance-based virtue epistemology continues to mature. His fourth book in epistemology in twice as many years, Judgment and Agency (2015) deepens and extends Sosa’s previous work on the nature and value of knowledge. The result is impressive. Judgment and Agency reads like a product of sustained, penetrating philosophical reflection by one of the great minds in ...

The ethical problem of privacy lies at the core of computer ethics and cyber ethics discussions. The extensive use of personal data in digital networks poses a serious threat to the user’s right of privacy not only at the level of a user’s data integrity and security but also at the level of a user’s identity and freedom. In normative ethical theory the need for an informational self-determinis...

The twentieth century phenomenon of professionalism had a major impact on the economy of nation states and has been recognised as a key element of post-industrial societies. As an anointed class, professionals reserved the right to prescribe their own roles and responsibilities. Critics of professional interests, however, have described professionals’ own definition of their roles and responsib...

Abstract The idea that ethics might be fruitfully understood in analogy with, or indeed as a form of, medicine has enjoyed long and distinguished history. A staple of ancient philosophical thinking, it also achieved wide expression the Islamic world. This essay explores role medical work eleventh-century Muslim intellectual Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī. Al-Ghazālī’s use this offers unique vantage point...

This Paper focuses on intellectual property enforcement, a topic that is of great importance to both developed and less developed countries. It begins by refuting the simple, and often politically motivated, claim that many countries fail to provide effective intellectual property enforcement by virtue of their lack of political will. Drawing on the latest economic literature, this Paper shows ...

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

In reaction to the epistemic crisis, efforts restrict free expression and access information have not only failed preserve truth, but sometimes also suppressed it. Libraries’ commitment intellectual freedom creates unique opportunities deliver alternative solutions. By renewing emphasis on in core library functions like collections, education, programming, libraries can provide resources that p...

Introduction This article explores whether social science lecturers and postgraduate students perceive their experiences of university as supporting intellectual humility – a concept representing disposition to rigorously consider opposing ideas beliefs held in order confirm the positive epistemic status (or truth) ones’ own beliefs. Methods Forty participants, consisting twenty from United Kin...