Knowledge and Justification

Conférence en anglais.

Abstract

This paper has three main parts. Part A sketches a virtue-theoretic account of knowledge as action, which illuminates epistemic justification in Part B and radical skepticism in Part C. It is also argued briefly that the resulting virtue epistemology is in a long tradition that begins with Aristotle’s virtue ethics. The epistemology of Descartes is the other highlight in that tradition, and is fundamentally a special case of virtue ethics.