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Ohlhorst, Jakob ORCID: 0000-0001-8630-6358 . Dual processes, dual virtues. Philos. Stud.. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-0883

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Abstract

I argue that virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism are complementary. They do not give competing accounts of epistemic virtue. Rather they explain the excellent functioning of different parts of our cognitive apparatus. Reliabilist virtue designates the excellent functioning of fast and context-specific Type 1 cognitive processes, while responsibilist virtue means an excellent functioning of effortful and reflective Type 2 cognitive processes. This account unifies reliabilist and responsibilist virtue theory. But the virtues are not unified by designating some epistemic norm that both aim at. Instead, I unify them through their cognitive foundations. Because Type 1 and Type 2 cognition are complementary, reliabilist and responsibilist virtues are complementary. Thereby, this dual-process theory of epistemic virtue gives a naturalised account of virtues as well as an explanation of how reliabilism and responsibilism relate. This approach offers a solution for both the generality problem and the situationist challenge to virtue epistemology; additionally it preserves the epistemological autonomy of each virtue type.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ohlhorst, Jakob UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8630-6358 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-574230
DOI:	10.1007/s11098-021-01761-7
Journal or Publication Title:	Philos. Stud.
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	DORDRECHT
ISSN:	1573-0883
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GENERALITY PROBLEM; PSYCHOLOGY Multiple languages Philosophy Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57423