Virtue Theoretic Epistemology

Christoph Kelp is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Good Thinking: A Knowledge First Virtue Epistemology (2018) and winner of the 2017 Young Epistemologist Prize. John Greco holds the McDevitt Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His publications include Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity (Cambridge, 2010) and The Transmission of Knowledge (Cambridge, forthcoming).

• Introduction. Virtue theoretic epistemology Christoph Kelp; 1. Closed-mindedness as an intellectual vice Heather Battaly; 2. Epistemic virtues and virtues with epistemic content Cameron Boult, Christoph Kelp, Johanna Schnurr and Mona Simion; 3. Difficulty and knowledge Fernando Broncano-Berrocal; 4. What is epistemic entitlement? Reliable competence, reasons, inference, access Peter Graham; 5. Knowledge-producing abilities John Greco; 6. Virtue epistemology, two kinds of internalism, and the intelligibility problem Jonathan Kvanvig; 7. Knowledge is extrinsically apt belief: virtue epistemology and the temporal objection Anne Meylan; 8. Explaining knowledge Alan Millar; 9. Anti-risk virtue epistemology Duncan Pritchard; 10. Responsibilism within reason Kurt Sylvan.

'This estimable collection presents essays from many of the most influential authors working in virtue epistemology - an approach to epistemology that either focuses on agent-centered factors to analyze important epistemic concepts such as knowledge, justification, reliability, or warrant or sees virtue epistemology as a fruitful way to conceive of values specific to cognition, such as open-mindedness or bias.' N. D. Smith, Choice