Virtues and vices in scientific practice.
The role intellectual virtues play in scientific inquiry has raised significant discussions in the recent literature. A number of authors have recently explored the link between virtue epistemology and philosophy of science with the aim to show whether epistemic virtues can contribute to the resolut...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 5; pp. 1787 - 1808 |
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