In her essay titled "Epistemic Virtue and Vice," 1 philosopher Heather Battaly argues in favor of... more In her essay titled "Epistemic Virtue and Vice," 1 philosopher Heather Battaly argues in favor of possession-personalism, a virtue epistemology constructed as a third, middle way of analysis of epistemic virtues lying in between the established, seemingly unconciliating virtuereliabilism and virtue-responsibilism. Battaly's possession-personalism argues that we need not be responsible for the possession of our epistemic virtues and vices and that the epistemic virtues are exclusively personal qualities. Relatedly, in his article "Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic
The aim of this paper will be to deepen Cassam’s vice epistemology by making a case for the funda... more The aim of this paper will be to deepen Cassam’s vice epistemology by making a case for the fundamental role of self-ignorance in intellectual character vices through an analysis of their self-disguising nature for epistemically conscientious agents. More precisely, I will show that intellectual character vices are thus rooted in, or maintain themselves through, the agent’s self-ignorance, and consequently that self-knowledge is key in identifying these vices of conscientious agents in order for them to change their vicious habits of thought and inquiry.
In her essay titled "Epistemic Virtue and Vice," 1 philosopher Heather Battaly argues in favor of... more In her essay titled "Epistemic Virtue and Vice," 1 philosopher Heather Battaly argues in favor of possession-personalism, a virtue epistemology constructed as a third, middle way of analysis of epistemic virtues lying in between the established, seemingly unconciliating virtuereliabilism and virtue-responsibilism. Battaly's possession-personalism argues that we need not be responsible for the possession of our epistemic virtues and vices and that the epistemic virtues are exclusively personal qualities. Relatedly, in his article "Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic
The aim of this paper will be to deepen Cassam’s vice epistemology by making a case for the funda... more The aim of this paper will be to deepen Cassam’s vice epistemology by making a case for the fundamental role of self-ignorance in intellectual character vices through an analysis of their self-disguising nature for epistemically conscientious agents. More precisely, I will show that intellectual character vices are thus rooted in, or maintain themselves through, the agent’s self-ignorance, and consequently that self-knowledge is key in identifying these vices of conscientious agents in order for them to change their vicious habits of thought and inquiry.
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