Knowledge, Skill and Virtue Epistemology

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Knowlege, Skill and Virtue Epistemology
Duncan Pritchard, Handbook of Skill and Expertise, 2019/01/21
This is just one bit of Duncan Pritchard's voluminous output. It makes me think about the relation between knowledge, on the one hand, and the skill or virtues needed to produce knowledge on the other, in other words, between cognitive success and cognitive agency. "there is a way of thinking about knowledge that takes the idea that knowledge involves cognitive skill or ability as primary," writes Pritchard. More...