A New Kind of Virtue Responsibilism

Week 14

(26.04.)

Can we divorce responsibilism from character?

Sylvan, “Responsibilism out of Character”

Sylvan, “Responsibilism within Reason”

Character vs. Competence

Week 13

(19.04.)

Are resposibilist virtues just auxiliary virtues?

Sosa, Judgment and Agency (ch. 2)

Greco, “Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue”

Character and Knowledge

Week 12

(12.04.)

What role does character play in the acquisition of knowledge?

Baehr, “Character, Reliability and Virtue Epistemology”

Beahr, The Inquiring Mind (selection)

Zagzebski’s Virtue Responsibilism

Week 11

(05.04.)

What are responsibilist virtues? And are they necessary and/or sufficient for knowledge?

Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind (selection); Baehr, “Character in Epistemology” (pp. 479-95)

Greco, “Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue”; Zagzebski, “Intellectual Virtues: Admirable Traits of Character”