On Perspectival FlexibilityPaulina Sliwa (University of Vienna)
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Conceptual Dogmatism: Epistemology and Ethics of Consciousness Raising
June 25, 2025, 7:00am - 7:30am
University of Vienna
3A
Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Vienna 1010
Austria
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- FWF Cluster of Excellence "Knowledge in Crisis"
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ABSTRACT: This paper argues that there is a distinctive intellectual virtue called perspectival flexibility. An agent with the virtue of perspectival flexibility is able to shift between different, apt perspectives on a given subject matter. I spell out what this ability consists in, which epistemic good it promotes, and how it differs from other intellectual virtues we are already familiar with, in particular open-mindedness and intellectual humility.
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