Възраждане на интелектуалните добродетели в съвременната епистемология
The Revival of Intellectual Virtues in Contemporary Epistemology

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I introduce the reader to the background of contemporary virtue epistemology. The article consists of four sections. In section 1, I outline very briefly the main idea of virtue epistemology. I clarify the difference between moral and intellectual virtue, and the two senses in which the notion of intellectual virtue was used by the ancient Greek philosophers. In section 2, I explain how these two notions are reinterpreted by the contemporary virtue epistemologists, and how they give rise to two opposing views about the nature of virtue: the moral view and the faculty view (I call it „the functional view“). I explain the background rationale for each of these views and in what sense we can talk about virtue when we refer to mere faculties. In section 3, I place virtue epistemology in the context of some contemporary epistemological debates such as the debate about naturalized vs. traditional epistemology, and the debate about the value of knowledge. Also, I explain how virtue epistemology contributes to a potential solution of the Gettier problem and how it builds upon classical reliabilism. In section 4, I offer arguments pro and contra the moral and the faculty view. I try to estimate which of the two lines provides a better approach to the value problem.

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