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Epistemic Situationism (Hardcover)
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Epistemic Situationism (Hardcover)
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This volume is the first sustained examination of epistemic
situationism: the clash between virtue epistemology and the
situationist hypothesis inspired by research in empirical
psychology. Situationism began as a challenge to the psychology of
character traits, targeting ethical theories that presuppose a
trait psychology. Psychological research suggests that (often
trivial) environmental variables have greater explanatory power
than character traits. Epistemology pursues questions about the
nature of knowledge. While there are internal differences within
virtue epistemology between responsibilists and reliabilists, they
all analyze knowledge in terms of epistemic virtues and vices.
However, despite promising normative results, virtue epistemology
appears to assume the same character-based psychology as virtue
ethics does. 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 skills, 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 sceptical or revisionary, others
conservative.
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