2018/04/01 by Ángel Rodríguez · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Misinformation and Its Impacts
paper · pdf · doi:10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2018.02
openalex publication_date 2018/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Pure virtue epistemology faces the fake barn challenge. This paper explains how it can be met. Thus, it is argued that the thought experiment contains a hidden ambiguity concerning the visual ability typically ascribed to, or denied, fake barn subjects. Disambiguation shows fake barn subjects to have limited knowledge of the target proposition (e.g. that there is a barn ahead). This accords with a pure virtue-theoretic conception of knowledge that predicts and explains all the intuitionselicited by the thought experiment. As a result, the relationship between knowledge, luck and ability is illuminated, and our epistemological theorizing improved.