Intellectual Loyalty
This paper sympathetically considers the idea that intellectual loyalty is a virtue. Intellectual loyalty is characterized as a species of loyalty, and some potential problems for the idea that intellectual loyalty is a virtue are considered: I argue that it is possible to be intellectually loyal an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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| In: |
International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 326-350 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Frankfurt, Harry G. 1929-2023
/ Thinking
/ Impossibility (Philosophy)
/ Price, H. H. 1899-1984
/ Faith
/ Rejection of
/ Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951, Über Gewissheit
/ Intellectual perspective
/ Loyalty
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| Further subjects: | B
Virtue Ethics
virtue epistemology
loyalty
hinge propositions
ethics of belief
open-mindedness
social epistemology
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| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | This paper sympathetically considers the idea that intellectual loyalty is a virtue. Intellectual loyalty is characterized as a species of loyalty, and some potential problems for the idea that intellectual loyalty is a virtue are considered: I argue that it is possible to be intellectually loyal and that intellectual loyalty is not a species of unappealing dogmatism. In defense of this, I draw connections between intellectual loyalty and Frankfurt’s idea of the unthinkable, Price’s idea of refusing to believe, and Wittgenstein’s idea of hinges. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
| Contains: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-00603014 |
