Belief, Truth and Virtue

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2013
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Turp, Michael-John
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In this paper, I defend the view that truth is a constitutive norm of belief formation, argue in favour of a virtue-theoretic account of epistemic evaluation and respond to possible objections. In §I, I argue that belief necessarily aims at truth. In §II, I defend a virtue-theoretic approach to epistemic evaluation in response to concerns about epis- temic luck and doxastic control. In §III, I distinguish between evaluative and deontic norms in order to avoid the charge that we are subject to impossible epistemic de- mands. In §IV, I study the relationship between epistemic norms, practical interests and ascriptions of knowledge.

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Turp MJ (2013). Belief, Truth and Virtue. Teorema. 32(3). 91-104.
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Aim of Belief, Intellectual Virtue, Epistemic Evaluation, Doxastic Voluntarism, Knowledge
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2203 Philosophy
Fields of Research::50 - Philosophy and religious studies::5003 - Philosophy::500305 - Epistemology
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