The epistemic value of reflection

Autores/as

  • Allysson Vasconcelos Lima Rocha Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Palabras clave:

reflection, epistemic value, virtue epistemology, ignorance

Resumen

I discuss reflection as a means to achieve true belief and avoid error. I argue in the first section how can this be treated as a separate problem. In the second section, I discuss Sosa’s Virtue Epistemology approach to the epistemic value of reflection. In the third, I raise problems for this view and argue that, if ignorance possess epistemic value, it is an interesting form of dealing with these difficulties.

Biografía del autor/a

Allysson Vasconcelos Lima Rocha, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutorando do PPGFIL da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, com mestrado no mesmo. No momento, realiza doutorado-sanduíche na Vanderbilt University, sob orientação do professor Scott Aikin.

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2018-09-20