tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post8162942886245749516..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: On the BeachRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-88749591879283322762015-09-29T13:20:38.326-04:002015-09-29T13:20:38.326-04:00It's ironic but poignant that a system of thou...It's ironic but poignant that a system of thought based upon purposelessness yields...purposelessness.<br /><br />No surprises there.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-66751478253984709972015-09-28T22:42:55.088-04:002015-09-28T22:42:55.088-04:00Edit: Cuneo's latest is called *Speech* & ...Edit: Cuneo's latest is called *Speech* & Morality. Maul P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15227129983621069565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-50316320217667192015-09-28T21:45:15.890-04:002015-09-28T21:45:15.890-04:00Ryan,
On the relation between epistemic and moral...Ryan,<br /><br />On the relation between epistemic and moral norms, see Terrence Cuneo's The Normative Web (relatedly, see his recent Morality & Morality, where he argues that speech presupposes moral realism).<br /><br />P.S. Virtue epistemology is about the kinds of stable character traits good knowers should (and do) seek to cultivate. Epistemology is more about the development of intellectual virtues. Such traits might be: wisdom, prudence, understanding, doxastic loyalty, intellectual honesty, etc. At a basic level, virtue epistemology says that our ability to land on truth has much to do with the kind of character traits you have cultivated. So here we focus on persons across time, rather than snapshots, i.e., on internalism S knows that p (on some particular occasion) iff internalist desiderata D have been met (on that occasion). Anyway, some virtue epistemologists do not connect the intellectual with the moral virtues (Roger Crisp), but those in the neo-Aristotelian tradition do, e.g., ZagzebskiMaul P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15227129983621069565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-2589127888763125142015-09-28T17:37:49.927-04:002015-09-28T17:37:49.927-04:00The point is not that nihilism necessarily falsifi...<i>The point is not that nihilism necessarily falsifies the argument from evil. You might be able to rehabilitate an internal argument from evil, assuming nihilism is true.<br /><br />But even if it's not logically germane, it is existentially germane.</i><br /><br />On a related note, I've been wondering whether epistemic norms presuppose objective or grounded moral values. What are your thoughts on this?<br /><br />We can restrict this to an internalist framework for the purposes of discussion. If knowing in an internalist sense is "normed," does that mean that we must be acting morally in order to know anything? That we should morally reason or think a certain way? Or is it "normed" only in the sense that in order to achieve knowledge, we would have to reason or think a certain way? Or both?<br /><br />This might be what virtue epistemology is about, I haven't read enough about that.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07883500968749756873noreply@blogger.com