Epistemic Situationism

Abrol Fairweather, San Francisco State University
Mark Alfano, Delft University of Technology

Abrol Fairweather is a lecturer in the philosophy department at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to multiple articles, Abrol has edited four collections of papers related to virtue epistemology and intellectual virtue, including Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (CUP, 2014) with Owen Flanagan. His forthcoming book Knowledge and Dexterity (CUP, 2016) is co-authored with Carlos Montemayor and defends a theory epistemic agency utilizing recent research in the psychology of attention.

Mark Alfano is associate professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology. He received a doctorate from the Philosophy Program of the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY GC) in 2011, and he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and the Princeton University Center for Human Values, as well as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon.
Mark works on moral psychology, broadly construed to include ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. He also maintains an interest in Nietzsche, focusing on Nietzsche's psychological views.

Introduction: Epistemic Situationism, Abrol Fairweather
1. Is Every Epistemology A Virtue Epistemology?, Lauren Olin
2. Epistemic Situationism: An extended prolepsis, Mark Alfano
3. 1. Virtue Epistemology in the Zombie Apocalypse: Hungry Judges, Heavy Clipboards and Group Polarization, Berit Brogaard
4. Situationism and Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology, James Montmarquet
5. Virtue Theory Against Situationism, Ernest Sosa
6. Intellectual Virtue Now and Again, Chris Lepock
7. Responsibilism Out of Character, Kurt Sylvan
8. Epistemic Situationism and Cognitive Ability, John Turri
9. Epistemic Situationism, Epistemic Dependence and the Epistemology of Education, J. Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard
10. The Situationist Challenge to Educating For Intellectual Virtues, Jason Baehr
11. Feminist Responsibilism, Situationism and the Complexities of the Virtue of Trustworthiness, Heidi Grasswick
12. Moods and Their Unexpected Virtues, Nicole Smith