A Virtue Epistemology
This chapter presents a theory of knowledge as coming in two main varieties: the animal and the reflective. Animal knowledge is apt belief, which hits the mark of truth through the exercise of competence, of intellectual virtue. This account enables a further, broader approach to scepticism, both dream scepticism and the more radical scepticism of outre scenarios such as the envatted brain and others of its ilk.
Keywords: aptness, adroitness, knowledge, animal knowledge, reflective knowledge, virtue epistemology
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