Dear list, A quick reminder: TOMORROW, Friday 4th May, 2-4pm, in the Board Room in the Faculty of Philosophy, Paul Faulkner (Sheffield) will present a paper entitled 'A Virtue Theory of Testimony', with discussion after. An abstract is below.
All are welcome. Wine immediately after in the lobby. Very best, Tom Simpson Abstract: Recent epistemology has seen the development of two styles of virtue theory, which have respectively become known as virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism. Each of these theories has been applied to the domain of testimony; the first by Jennifer Lackey and the second by Miranda Fricker. This papers aims to outline and evaluate these virtue theories before proposing an alternative virtue theory. It argues that a virtue reliability theory fails once it is acknowledged that reliability alone is not sufficient for justification. And it argues that a virtue responsibility theory fails once the phenomenon of epistemic error is properly appreciated. The virtue theory proposed is more ethical than epistemic: it is a virtue theory of trust and trustworthiness. But from these ethical virtues, epistemic consequences can be seen to follow. Bio: Paul Faulkner received his PhD from UCL in 2000 and since 2001 has been working in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. In 2011 he published a monograph on the epistemology of testimony "Knowledge on Trust". And this remains his primary research focus. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
