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virtue epistemology This page intentionally left blank virtue epistemology Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility Edited by Abrol Fairweather & Linda Zagzebski 1 2001 3 Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 2001 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Virtue epistemology : essays on epistemic virtue and responsibility / edited by Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-514077-X 1. Virtue epistemology. I. Fairweather, Abrol. II. Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946– BD176 .V57 2000 121—dc21 00-061152 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper acknowledgments Earlier forms of ten of the thirteen essays in this collection were presented at a conference on Virtue and Duty in Epistemology at Santa Barbara City College, November 12–14, 1999. The editors wish to thank Dr. Joseph White, Chair of the SBCC Philosophy Department, Aleksander Jokic and Jim Chesher at the Center for Philosophical Education, and the Matchette Foundation and the Ray Stark Foun- dation for their generous financial support. The Center for Philosophical Education (CPE) has been in operation since 1996 and has sponsored six philosophical conferences, all on the campus of Santa Barbara City College and all leading to the publication of book collections. In the spring of 1998 Abrol Fairweather, member of the CPE Steering Committee, invited Linda Zagzebski to help organize the conference on Virtue and Duty in Epistemology and to negotiate the publication of the essays. The resulting collection, under the co- editorship of Fairweather and Zagzebski, includes essays by three of the respondents at the conference. The editors are grateful to all of the respondents and the many members of the audience at the conference for the stimulating discussions fol- lowing the papers. The impressive collection of scholars and the generous and beau- tiful accommodations at SBCC that weekend made for a rewarding exchange of ideas that improved the essays presented here. This page intentionally left blank contents Contributors, ix 1 Introduction, 3 Linda Zagzebski and Abrol Fairweather, 3 2 Reason, Virtue, and Knowledge, 15 Simon Blackburn 3 The Unity of the Epistemic Virtues, 30 Alvin I. Goldman 4 For the Love of Truth? 49 Ernest Sosa 5 Epistemic Motivation, 63 Abrol Fairweather 6 Epistemic Virtue and Justified Belief, 82 Robert Audi 7 Thin Concepts to the Rescue: Thinning the Concepts of Epistemic Justification and Intellectual Virtue, 98 Heather D. Battaly 8 Virtues and Rules in Epistemology, 117 John Greco 9 Must Knowers Be Agents? 142 Linda Zagzebski 10 Epistemic Luck in Light of the Virtues, 158 Guy Axtell 11 Epistemic Akrasiaand Epistemic Virtue, 178 Christopher Hookway 12 The Virtue of Knowledge, 200 Keith Lehrer 13 The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality, 214 Richard Foley 14 Epistemic Obligation and the Possibility of Internalism, 231 Hilary Kornblith Index, 249 viii contents contributors Robert Audi, Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, University of Nebraska– Lincoln Guy Axtell, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada–Reno Heather D. Battaly, Instructor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton Simon Blackburn, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Univer- sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Abrol Fairweather, Instructor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco Richard Foley, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University Alvin I. Goldman, Regents Professor of Philosophy and Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Arizona John Greco, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University Christopher Hookway, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield Hilary Kornblith, Professor of Philosophy, University of Vermont Keith Lehrer, Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona Ernest Sosa, Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy, Brown University. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Rutgers University Linda Zagzebski, Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma ix