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View article: What’s Wrong With Swearing?
What’s Wrong With Swearing? Open
This paper makes the case that a prima facie wrongness of swearing is due to the wrongness of disrespecting another person’s autonomy. This disrespect is manifested in the imposition of swearing and inhibiting reflective capacities, which …
View article: Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities Open
The goal of this paper is to examine whether nudges create negative epistemic externalities. The thesis of this paper is that there is reason to believe that nudging does have this effect. The paper begins by introducing this claim and its…
View article: Wisdom, Intellectual Virtue, and Epistemology
Wisdom, Intellectual Virtue, and Epistemology Open
This paper argues that a wise person is an intellectually virtuous person. The intellectual virtue requirement is explained as a necessary condition for wisdom, intuitively the highest epistemic good. This provides an answer to Duncan Prit…
View article: A Virtue Theoretic Ethics of Intellectual Agency
A Virtue Theoretic Ethics of Intellectual Agency Open
There is a well-established literature on the ethics of belief. Our beliefs, however, are just one aspect of our intellectual lives with which epistemology should be concerned. I make the case that epistemologists should be concerned with …
View article: Wisdom, not Veritism
Wisdom, not Veritism Open
In this response to Pritchard’s “In Defence of Veritism”, I defend the view that it is wisdom rather than truth that is fundamental in epistemology. Given that recent philosophical discussions of the nature of wisdom may be unfamiliar to s…
View article: Drawing meaning and direction from private native forest research – a summation of two recent studies
Drawing meaning and direction from private native forest research – a summation of two recent studies Open
Information about the state and use of private native forests has been traditionally hard to gather, however, recent research in north-east New South Wales (NSW) and southern Queensland (QLD) is helping to bridge the knowledge gap. Researc…