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Why Should a Knower Care?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Vrinda Dalmiya
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Abstract

This paper argues that the concept of care is significant not only for ethics, but for epistemology as well. After elucidating caring as a five-step dyadic relation, I go on to show its epistemic significance within the general framework of virtue epistemology as developed by Ernest Sosa, Alvin Goldman, and Linda Zagzebski. The notions of “care-knowing” and “care-based epistemology” emerge from construing caring (respectively) as a reliabilist and responsibilist virtue.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 34 - 52
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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