Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis examines the relationship between character and intellectual or epistemic vices. The philosophical study of epistemic vices is called vice epistemology. To date, much of the work in this emerging field has focused on the nature and epistemological significance of particular intellectual vices such as close-mindedness or dogmatism. Far less has been said about how it is that people come to acquire and develop these intellectual vices. My aim in this thesis is to fill this lacuna by articulating how this phenomenon occurs. Specifically, this thesis develops an account of epistemic corruption.
Author: Matthews, Taylor Roger Charlie
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G6175029702
OpenAlex ID: W7065059665