| Title: | Curiosity, checking, and knowing : a virtue-theoretical perspective |
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| Authors: | ID Miščević, Nenad (Author) |
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| Files: |  Miscevic-2023-Curiosity,_Checking,_and_Knowing.pdf (824,49 KB)
MD5: B5CB6B77EC777E688BDF31533D3CADCB
 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-022-00538-9
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.03 - Other scientific articles |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | In his important and original book, Knowing and Checking, Guido Melchior provides advice on how to tackle skepticism. I argue that his analysis points to a possible virtue-theoretic answer to skepticism, which I call the restraint solution, i.e., activate your self-trust and restrain your inquisitiveness! It leads one to the ideal of bounded reflective curiosity: when it comes to knowledge, we should restrain our second-order, reflective curiosity and stay content with the somewhat Moorean trust in ordinary everyday beliefs. We can preserve our ordinary, first-order vigilance and investigative interest (curiosity) without falling into skeptical over-caution which is basically a reflective, second-order vicious attitude. |
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| Keywords: | checking inquiry, curiosity, virtue epistemology |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 19.07.2022 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 30.11.2022 |
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| Publication date: | 25.01.2023 |
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| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | Str. 53-67 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 38, Št. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-87522  |
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| UDC: | 165.7 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0353-5150 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 148175363 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s12136-022-00538-9 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 19.03.2024 |
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| Views: | 431 |
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| Downloads: | 33 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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