Virtuous testimonial belief in young children |
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Authors: | Shane Ryan |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstanshaneryan27@hotmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9368-0049 |
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Abstract: | I lay out the challenge posed by testimonial knowledge in young children to virtue reliabilist accounts of knowledge. In particular, I examine accounts from Greco and Pritchard and argue that those accounts are too demanding. More specifically, I make the case that young children can have testimonial knowledge without meeting the ability requirements claimed by Greco and Pritchard. As a virtue theoretic alternative, I argue that an agent’s belief must be epistemically virtuous, but that this may sometimes involve belief from a trait rather than an ability. |
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