TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtue epistemology and epistemic twin earth
AU - Kallestrup, Jesper
AU - Pritchard, Duncan
N1 - This paper was written while DHP was in receipt of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. An earlier version of this paper was presented (by JK) at a workshop on epistemology at the University of Copenhagen in November 2010, and the authors are grateful to the participants at this event for helpful feedback. Thanks also to Evan Butts and Orestis Palermos.
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - A popular form of virtue epistemology - defended by such figures as Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski and John Greco - holds that knowledge can be exclusively understood in virtue-theoretic terms. In particular, it holds that there isn't any need for an additional epistemic condition to deal with the problem posed by knowledge-undermining epistemic luck. It is argued that the sustainability of such a proposal is called into question by the possibility of epistemic twin earth cases. In particular, it is argued that such cases demonstrate the need for virtue-theoretic accounts of knowledge to appeal to an independent epistemic condition which excludes knowledge-undermining epistemic luck.
AB - A popular form of virtue epistemology - defended by such figures as Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski and John Greco - holds that knowledge can be exclusively understood in virtue-theoretic terms. In particular, it holds that there isn't any need for an additional epistemic condition to deal with the problem posed by knowledge-undermining epistemic luck. It is argued that the sustainability of such a proposal is called into question by the possibility of epistemic twin earth cases. In particular, it is argued that such cases demonstrate the need for virtue-theoretic accounts of knowledge to appeal to an independent epistemic condition which excludes knowledge-undermining epistemic luck.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00495.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00495.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907951823
SN - 0966-8373
VL - 22
SP - 335
EP - 357
JO - European Journal of Philosophy
JF - European Journal of Philosophy
IS - 3
ER -