RT Article
T1 Intellectual Loyalty
JF International journal for the study of skepticism
VO 6
IS 2/3
SP 326
OP 350
A1 Hazlett, Allan
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1562109316
AB 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.
K1 Virtue Ethics : virtue epistemology : loyalty : hinge propositions : ethics of belief : open-mindedness : social epistemology
DO 10.1163/22105700-00603014