Four Varieties of Character‐Based Virtue Epistemology

Baehr, Jason

doi:10.1111/j.2041-6962.2008.tb00081.x

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“…I will not attempt to resolve this issue here. 33 For a further discussion of such cases and of the problems they present for a virtue-based analysis of justification or knowledge, see Baehr 2006. significant way. 34 This shows that an exercise of intellectual virtue cannot be a necessary condition for justification.…”

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Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue

Baehr¹

2011

The Inquiring Mind

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Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue

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2011

The Inquiring Mind

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“…Though the above is only a sketch of an epistemology modelled on a form of virtue ethics, it does seem to support the idea that analogies between epistemology and ethics in this area could be fruitful. But let me mention some issues, both methodological and substantive, that arise for anyone developing such an analogy (see Baehr 2008, esp. final sec.…”

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Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology

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2010

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The aim of this essay is to test the claim that epistemologists-virtue epistemologists in particular-have much to learn from virtue ethics. The essay begins with an outline of virtue ethics itself. This section concludes that a pure form of virtue ethics is likely to be unattractive, so the virtue epistemologist should examine the ''impure'' views of real philosophers. Aristotle is usually held up as the paradigm virtue ethicist. His doctrine of the mean is described, and it is explained how that doctrine can provide a framework for an account of epistemic virtue. The conclusion of the essay is that a virtue epistemology based on analogies with virtue ethics, though well worth developing and considering, will face several challenges in fulfilling the significant promises that have been made on its behalf.

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“…It is, however, a form of collective intelligence that is predicated on a particular category of individual-level properties, viz., those properties of individual agents that are typically denigrated as cognitive shortcomings or 'cognitive vices'. Such vices include a range of cognitive constraints, limitations and biases, as well as an assortment of intellectual character traits, such as those discussed by proponents of character-based virtue epistemology (see Zagzebski 1996;Baehr 2008Baehr , 2012. 2 All these cognitive vices can, I suggest, contribute to the emergence (realization?)…”

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Mandevillian Intelligence

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Mandevillian intelligence is a specific form of collective intelligence in which individual cognitive vices (i.e., shortcomings, limitations, constraints and biases) are seen to play a positive functional role in yielding collective forms of cognitive success. The present paper introduces the concept of mandevillian intelligence and reviews a number of strands of empirical research that help to shed light on the phenomenon. The paper also attempts to highlight the value of the concept of mandevillian intelligence from a philosophical, scientific and engineering perspective. Inasmuch as we accept the notion of mandevillian intelligence, then it seems that the cognitive and epistemic value of a specific social or technological intervention will vary according to whether our attention is focused at the individual or collective level of analysis. This has a number of important implications for how we think about the design and evaluation of collective cognitive systems. For example, the notion of mandevillian intelligence forces us to take seriously the idea that the exploitation (or even the accentuation) of individual cognitive shortcomings could, in some situations, provide a productive route to collective forms of cognitive and epistemic success.

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Four Varieties of Character‐Based Virtue Epistemology

Cited by 27 publications

References 45 publications

Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue

Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue

Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology

Mandevillian Intelligence

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