Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?

Just as virtue ethics considers what a good person ought to look like, so responsibilist virtue epistemology investigates what a good inquirer should be. Central to both fields, though, is the role that character traits play. In this paper, I critically respond to Müller’s claim that we should instead give acts, and not character traits, this evaluative and conceptual primacy in virtue responsibilism.

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ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
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2025-08-15
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Philosophical Ethics and Theory
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Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?

ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
Philosophical Ethics and Theory
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Should we take virtuous acts as evaluatively and conceptually primary?

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Abstract

Just as virtue ethics considers what a good person ought to look like, so responsibilist virtue epistemology investigates what a good inquirer should be. Central to both fields, though, is the role that character traits play. In this paper, I critically respond to Müller’s claim that we should instead give acts, and not character traits, this evaluative and conceptual primacy in virtue responsibilism.

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