Pierre Duhem's Epistemic Aims and the Intellectual Virtue of Humility: A Reply to Ivanova (2011)
David Stump (2007) has recently argued that Pierre Duhem can be interpreted as a virtue epistemologist. Stump's claims have been challenged by Milena Ivanova (2010) on the grounds that Duhem's `epistemic aims' are more modest than those of virtue epistemologists. I challenge Ivanova's criticism of Stump by arguing that she not distinguish between `reliabilist' and `responsibilist' virtue epistemologies. Once this distinction is drawn, Duhem clearly emerges as a `virtue-responsibilist' in a way that complements Ivanova's positive proposal that Duhem's `good sense' reflects a conception of the `ideal scientist'. I support my proposal that Duhem is a `virtue-responsibilist' by arguing that his rejection of the possibility of our producing a `perfect theory' reflects the key responsibilist virtue of `intellectual humility'.
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