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Intellectual virtue : perspectives from ethics and epistemology / edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtue.
- Virtue epistemology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 298 pages)
- Other Title:
- Perspectives from ethics and epistemology
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working in either field. - ;Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has
- Contents:
- The structure of virtue / Julia Annas
- Intellectual virtue : emotions, luck, and the ancients / Nancy Sherman and Heath White
- Virtue ethics : radical or routine? / David Solomon
- Practical reason and its virtue / J.L.A. Garcia
- Knowledge as credit for true belief / John Greco
- Intellectual motivation and the good of truth / Linda Zagzebski
- The place of truth in epistemology / Ernest Sosa
- How to be a virtue epistemologist / Christopher Hookway
- Understanding 'virtue' and the virtue of understanding / Wayne D. Riggs
- Knowing cognitive selves / Christine McKinnon
- Humility and epistemic goods / Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-171928-5
- 1-281-34608-X
- 0-19-153097-2
- OCLC:
- 476260012
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