Virtuous testimonial belief in young children

• Main Author: RYAN, Shane
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3685; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4943/viewcontent/Virtuous_testimonial_belief_in_young_children.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

I lay out the challenge posed by testimonial knowledge in young children to virtue reliabilist accounts of knowledge. In particular, I examine accounts from Greco and Pritchard and argue that those accounts are too demanding. More specifically, I make the case that young children can have testimonial knowledge without meeting the ability requirements claimed by Greco and Pritchard. As a virtue theoretic alternative, I argue that an agent's belief must be epistemically virtuous, but that this may sometimes involve belief from a trait rather than an ability.