virtue epistemology

Interview. (Post)Modern Aesthetics on Trial: Revisiting a Century of Avant-Gardes

Aleš Erjavec, Oana Șerban   Abstract   This interview is inspired the most important working-hypothesis presented in the volume Aesthetic Revolutions and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, edited by Aleš Erjavec, that questions the legitimacy of the distinction between aesthetic and artistic avant-gardes, supported by the relationship of each concept with the modern revolutionary politics. The … [Read more…]

Intellectual Virtues and the Epistemology of Modality: Tracking the Relevance of Intellectual Character Traits in Modal Epistemology

Alexandru Dragomir   Abstract The domain of modal epistemology tackles questions regarding the sources of our knowledge of modalities (i.e., possibility and necessity), and what justifies our beliefs about modalities. Virtue epistemology, on the other hand, aims at explaining epistemological concepts like knowledge and justification in terms of properties of the epistemic subject, i.e., cognitive … [Read more…]