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Character as Moral Fiction
Mark Alfano
- 14 Feb 2013
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TL;DR: In this paper, the situationist challenge to virtue ethics is extended to reliabilist virtue epistemology, and an investigation of social distance heuristics is carried out.
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Abstract: Introduction: Tripartite naturalistic ethics Part I. Factitious Moral Virtue: 1. Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics 2. Rearticulating the situationist challenge to virtue ethics 3. Attempts to defend virtue ethics 4. Factitious moral virtue Part II. Factitious Intellectual Virtue: 5. Extending the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology 6. Extending the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology 7. Factitious intellectual virtue Part III. Programmatic Conclusion: 8. To see as we are seen: an investigation of social distance heuristics.
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