Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?
Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?
Just as virtue ethics considers what a good person ought to look like, so responsibilist virtue epistemology investigates what a good inquirer should be. Central to both fields, though, is the role that character traits play. In this paper, I critically respond to Müller’s claim that we should instead give acts, and not character traits, this evaluative and conceptual primacy in virtue responsibilism.
Epistemic virtue, resonsibilism, acts, fleeting, success
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Matthews, Taylor
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15 August 2025
Matthews, Taylor
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Matthews, Taylor
(2025)
Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 14 (8), .
Abstract
Just as virtue ethics considers what a good person ought to look like, so responsibilist virtue epistemology investigates what a good inquirer should be. Central to both fields, though, is the role that character traits play. In this paper, I critically respond to Müller’s claim that we should instead give acts, and not character traits, this evaluative and conceptual primacy in virtue responsibilism.
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Published date: 15 August 2025
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Epistemic virtue, resonsibilism, acts, fleeting, success
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