ABSTRACT
Taking Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as a starting point for a conversation about the epistemic virtues in the Digital Humanities, Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever discuss a rejection of the normative tradition of honing an ideal-typical definition of what makes “good science” in favor of an exploration in the phenomenological descriptive tradition of epistemic norms (values) as internalized by scientists. They reflect on the six epistemic virtues that could be instrumental in prompting a new “style of reasoning” that combines the epistemological, political, and ethical dimensions of Digital Humanities practices in the global knowledge ecosystem. The Tokyo 2023 workshop on the “Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues in Digital Humanities” is a source of inspiration.
