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What are the qualities of an excellent thinker? A growing new field, virtue epistemology, answers this question. distinguishes virtue epistemology from belief‐based epistemology. explains the two primary accounts of intellectual virtue: virtue‐reliabilism and virtue‐responsibilism. Virtue‐reliabilists claim that the virtues are stable reliable faculties, like vision. Virtue‐responsibilists claim that they are acquired character traits, like open‐mindedness. evaluates progress and problems with respect to three key projects: explaining low‐grade knowledge, high‐grade knowledge, and the individual intellectual virtues.
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