Virtue reliabilism and favorable epistemic environments
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This dissertation develops a virtue-theoretic framework that properly considers the role of the epistemic environment in the acquisition of knowledge and other related normative statuses. It argues that such a framework provides a series of theoretical benefits: it enables an improved articulation of the safety condition for knowledge, motivates an appropriate analysis of fake barn cases, and furnishes tools to assess the epistemic harms caused by deepfakes. The main strategy used to understand the effects of the epistemic environment in these issues is to analyze the normativity of the practices in which skillful performances take place. The central idea is that these practices involve norms that require the agent's local environment to be shaped in specific ways.
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Ph. D.