![]() 2 This happens when, for instance, indoctrination causes closed-mindedness, and social oppression causes intellectual servility. Vice epistemologists have largely embraced the thesis that it is possible for an agent to have epistemic vices that are 'out of her control.' To explicate, there is growing consensus among vice epistemologists that an agent can possess epistemic vices over whose initial acquisition she lacked control. ![]() It focuses on the claim that epistemic vices require the agent who possesses them to be responsible for them. First, what qualities count as epistemic vices and why? What features of a quality make it an epistemic vice? Second, how are epistemic vices connected to epistemic goods like knowledge? Must epistemic vices impede knowledge? And, third, how can we rehabilitate or ameliorate epistemic vices? What is the role of the individual and the environment in curbing epistemic vice? 1 My project here falls under the first set of questions. Vice epistemology aims to answer three sets of questions. work together with specialists in non-voluntarist responsibility to solve the responsibility problem. strive to define the responsibility problem 3. admit that we have a responsibility problem 2. I recommend a three-step program for vice epistemologists: 1. Whereas, if it ends up being too broad, it risks including qualities that we do not want to count as epistemic vices, such as impaired vision. If our analysis of non-voluntarist responsibility ends up being too narrow, then it risks excluding some qualities that we want to count as epistemic vices, such as implicit biases. Our problem, as vice epistemologists, is giving an analysis of non-voluntarist responsibility that will count just the right qualities, no more and no less, as epistemic vices. One of the proposed requirements of epistemic vices is that they are reprehensible-blameworthy in a non-voluntarist way. Abstract: Vice epistemology is in the business of defining epistemic vice. The final version is forthcoming in Philosophical Issues.
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