ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the relationship between luck and the normative evaluation of performances. The archer double-wind case nicely illustrates Linda Zagzebski’s way of characterizing Edmund Gettier cases—in epistemology—as a result of double-luck. One interesting attempt to square anti-luck epistemology with a performance normativity account of knowledge belongs to Lisa Miracchi. She argues for a view she calls direct virtue epistemology. On traditional or “indirect” virtue epistemology accounts, one’s epistemic skill in coming to know a proposition involves a skill aiming at obtaining true beliefs. An archer can be skillful in taking Sosa shot, but an archer can also be skillful in deciding whether to take a shot. And if a performance’s aptness manifests an agent’s meta-aptness, the performance is “fully apt.”
