A virtue theoretic ethics of intellectual agency

• Main Author: RYAN, Shane
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: ethics of belief; epistemology; intellectual agency; normativity; ethics of intellectual agency; virtue ethics; virtuous agent; virtue responsibilism; decision procedure; Epistemology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3712
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There is a well-established literature on the ethics of belief. Our beliefs, however, are just one aspect of our intellectual lives with which epistemology should be concerned. I make the case that epistemologists should be concerned with an ethics of intellectual agency rather than the narrower cat...