Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?

Zagzebski’s treatment of our question is characteristically rich, innovative, and insightful. As in previous work, she resists certain standard assumptions and categories and in doing so moves the conversation forward in interesting ways. Zagzebski and I apparently agree that knowledge does not require intellectually virtuous motives in the strong sense that a belief counts as knowledge only if, in forming or maintaining it, the believer in question manifests intellectually virtuous motives.