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Curiosity, Checking, and Knowing: a Virtue-Theoretical Perspective
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Acta Analytica
Publication Volume
38
Publication Issue
1
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13941
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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Journal article
Date
2023
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10.1007/s12136-022-00538-9