Research Catalog

Title

Epistemic situationism / edited by Abrol Fairweather and Mark Alfano.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Fairweather, Abrol
• Alfano, Mark, 1983-

Description

258 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume is the first sustained examination of epistemic situationism, the clash between virtue epistemology and the situationist hypothesis supported by research in empirical psychology. Current research in social psychology suggests that environmental variables have greater explanatory and predictive power than traits in explaining human behavior and this has raised serious challenges to ethical theories, such as virtue ethics, that rely on a psychology of personality traits. However, virtue epistemology appears to assume the same trait-based psychology as virtue ethics does, and the research challenging virtue theories in ethics is relevant to philosophical theorizing about knowledge as well. Until recently virtue epistemology and situationism were separate literatures, but philosophers have begun to examine the apparent incompatibility between situationist psychology and virtue epistemology. Much of the psychological research that raises questions about the empirical adequacy of the moral psychology of virtue ethics also appears to raise doubts about the empirical adequacy of the epistemic psychology assumed by virtue epistemology. Responsibilist virtue epistemology appears particularly vulnerable because epistemic virtues like open-mindedness, conscientiousness, and intellectual courage are traits of intellectual character, but reliabilist virtue epistemology appeals to the psychology of cognitive skill, abilities, and competences that may be similarly vulnerable. The essays in this volume take up this new problem of epistemic situationism from multiple points of view - some skeptical or revisionary, others conservative."--

Subjects

• Knowledge, Theory of
• Erkenntnistheorie
• Situation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contributors -- Introduction : epistemic situationism / Abrol Fairweather -- Is every epistemology a virtue epistemology? / Lauren Olin -- Epistemic situationism : an extended prolepsis / Mark Alfano -- Virtue epistemology in the zombie apocalypse : hungry judges, heavy clipboards, and group polarization / Berit Brogaard -- Situationism and responsibilist virtue epistemology / James Montmarquet -- Virtue theory against situationism / Ernest Sosa -- Intellectual virtue now and again / Christoper Lepock -- Responsibilism out of character / Kurt Sylvan -- Epistemic situationism and cognitive ability / John Turri -- Epistemic situationism, epistemic dependence, and the epistemology of education / J. Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard -- The situationist challenge to educating for intellectual virtues / Jason Baehr -- Feminist responsibilism, situationism, and the complexities of the virtue of trustworthiness / Heidi Grasswick -- Moods and their unexpected virtues / Nicole Smith -- Index of topics.

Call Number

JFE 17-6872

ISBN

• 9780199688234
• 0199688230

LCCN

2016954511

OCLC

985640461

Title

Epistemic situationism / edited by Abrol Fairweather and Mark Alfano.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fairweather, Abrol, editor.

Alfano, Mark, 1983- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6872