Incompetent Knowledge: Virtues and Virtualities

Resumo

The paper reflects on some elements of Sosa's recently proposed SSS scheme. It considers the dispositional elements involved in some virtue-based epistemological approaches and their underlying counterfactual structure. These considerations ground a contrast between the virtue-based approach and a proposed virtuality-based approach where the underlying counterfactual is associated with no talk of abilities, capacities or competences.