NO SAFE HAVEN FOR THE VIRTUOUS

In order to deal with the problem caused by environmental luck some proponents of robust virtue epistemology have attempted to argue that in virtue of satisfying the ability condition one will satisfy the safety condition. Call this idea the entailment thesis. In this paper it will be argued that th...

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Published in:Episteme 2020-03, Vol.17 (1), p.48-63
Main Author: Hirvelä, Jaakko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive ability
Entailment
Epistemology
Knowledge
Sheep
Success
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Summary:In order to deal with the problem caused by environmental luck some proponents of robust virtue epistemology have attempted to argue that in virtue of satisfying the ability condition one will satisfy the safety condition. Call this idea the entailment thesis. In this paper it will be argued that the arguments that have been laid down for the entailment thesis entail a wrong kind of safety condition, one that we do not have in mind when we require our beliefs to be safe from error in order for them to be knowledge.
ISSN:1742-3600
1750-0117
DOI:10.1017/epi.2018.15