Vice epistemology / edited by Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly, and Quassim Cassam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kidd, Ian James, 1983- editor.

Battaly, Heather D., 1969- editor.

Cassam, Quassim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vices.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge and what is their role in sustaining patterns of ignorance? What is their relation to implicit or unconscious bias? How do epistemic vices and systems of social oppression relate to one another? Do we unwittingly absorb such traits from the process of socialization and communities around us? Are epistemic vices traits for which we can blamed? Can there be institutional and collective epistemic vices? This book seeks to answer these important questions about the vices of the mind and their roles in our social and epistemic lives, and is the first collection of its kind. Organized into three parts, chapters by outstanding scholars explore the nature of epistemic vices, specific examples of these vices, and case studies in applied vice epistemology, including education and politics. Alongside these foundational questions, the volume offers sophisticated accounts of vices both new and familiar. These include epistemic arrogance and servility, epistemic injustice, epistemic snobbishness, conspiratorial thinking, procrastination, and forms of closed-mindedness. Vice Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law and education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Epigraph

Dedication

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From epistemic vices to vice epistemology

The historical study of epistemic vices: a brief tour

The contemporary development of vice epistemology: a brief tour

Key themes in contemporary vice epistemology

Summary of chapters

Open questions

Notes

References

Part I Foundational issues

Chapter 1 The structure of intellectual vices

1.1 The structure of intellectual virtues

1.2 The structure of intellectual vices

1.3 Motivationalism

1.4 Conclusion

Chapter 2 The metaphysical foundations of vice epistemology

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

Chapter 3 Ignorance, arrogance, and privilege: Vice epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance

3.1 Varieties of ignorance

3.2 Ignorance as a vicious sensibility

3.3 Ignorance and arrogance

Chapter 4 Epistemic corruption and social oppression

4.1 Character and oppression

4.2 The concept of epistemic corruption

4.3 Presuppositions and predicaments

4.4 Epistemically corrupting conditions

4.5 Critical character epistemology

4.6 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Part II Collectives, institutions, and networks

Chapter 5 Institutional epistemic vices: The case of inferential inertia

5.1 Ethos matters

5.2 Modelling ethos

5.3 Modelling institutional epistemic vice

5.4 The institutional vice of inferential inertia

Chapter 6 Capital vices, institutional failures, and epistemic neglect in a county jail

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Falling into the abyss of epistemic corruption (I): corrupted testimonial sensibility.

6.3 Falling into the abyss of epistemic corruption (II): epistemically corrupted institutions

6.4 Fighting capital epistemic vices: resisting and preventing deep epistemic corruption

Chapter 7 Implicit bias and epistemic vice

7.1 What are implicit biases?

7.2 The prima facie case for implicit biases as intellectual vices

7.3 The challenges

7.4 The bias of crowds

7.5 Collective vice

7.6 Vice charging, individual and collective

Chapter 8 Vectors of epistemic insecurity

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Toward vector-relativized modal epistemic standings

8.3 Epistemic security

8.4 Virtue and vice in social epistemic networks

8.5 Conclusion

Part III Analyses of specific vices

Chapter 9 Quitting, procrastinating, and slacking off

9.1 Intellectual perseverance

9.2 Quitting

9.3 Procrastinating

9.4 Slacking off

9.5 Some related traits

Chapter 10 Epistemic insensitivity: An insidious and consequential vice

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Two types of virtue

10.3 Four breeds of insensitivity

10.4 On different manifestations

10.5 A spectrum of sensitivity

10.6 Objections

10.7 Conclusion

Chapter 11 Intellectual snobs

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Snobbery as an intellectual vice

11.3 Intellectual status and intellectual merit

11.4 Snobbish motives

11.5 Snobbish sensibilities

11.6 Conclusion

Part IV Applied vice epistemology

Chapter 12 Teaching to the test: How schools discourage phronesis

12.1 Sarah and Wallace

12.2 Epistemic phronesis

12.3 Educating against phronesis

12.4 Future work

Chapter 13 Vices of questioning in public discourse

13.1 What is bad questioning?.

13.2 A taxonomy of bad questioning

13.3 Bad questioning in public discourse

13.4 Bad questioning and intellectual vice

13.5 Concluding thoughts

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-14605-3

1-351-38086-9

9781315146058

OCLC:

1150857005