Virtue Epistemology

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This seminar will look at seminal and recent work in virtue epistemology and will address various epistemological issues from a virtue-theoretic perspective, including the nature, scope and value of knowledge. Other topics include: the nature of epistemic normativity; the nature of intellectual agency; relations among knowledge, virtue and luck; relations between knowledge and understanding; testimonial knowledge; the transmission of knowledge; and the nature and extent of social epistemic dependence.