@article{hughes_demystifying_2022,
	title = {Demystifying {Humility}'s {Paradoxes}},
	issn = {1742-3600},
	doi = {10.1017/epi.2022.6},
	abstract = {The utterance "I am humble"is thought to be paradoxical because a speaker implies that they know they are virtuous or reveals an aim to impress others - a decidedly non-humble aim. Such worries lead to the seemingly absurd conclusion that a humble person cannot properly assert that they are humble. In this paper, I reconstruct and evaluate three purported paradoxes of humility concerning its self-attribution, knowledge and belief about our own virtue, and humility's value. I argue that humility is not genuinely paradoxical and that these puzzles do not have meaningful implications for its conceptual analyses. I instead offer error theoretical explanations of humility's apparent paradoxicality. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press.},
	language = {English},
	journal = {Episteme},
	author = {Hughes, D.},
	year = {2022},
	keywords = {Humblebragging, Ignorance, Modesty, Self-attribution, Virtue},
}

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