Virtue Epistemology Naturalized : Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science / edited by Abrol Fairweather.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fairweather, Abrol, Editor.

Series:

Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 0166-6991 ; 366

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Cognitive psychology.

Ethics.

Epistemology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Epistemology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue; virtue theoretic solutions to underdetermination; epistemic virtues in the history of science; and the value of understanding. Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including: epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity. Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology. Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question: can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Virtue epistemology meets philosophy of science; Abrol Fairweather

Part I. Epistemic Virtue, Cognitive Science & Situationism

Chapter 2. The Function of Perception; Peter Graham

Chapter 3.Metacognition and Intellectual Virtue; Chris Lepock

Chapter 4. Daring to Believe: Epistemic Agency and Reflective Knowledge in Virtue Epistemology; Fernando Broncano

Chapter 5. Success, Minimal Agency and Epistemic Virtue; Carlos Montemayor

Chapter 6. Toward a Eudaimonistic Virtue Epistemology; Berit Brogaard

Chapter 7. The Situationist Challenge to Reliabilism About Inference; Mark Alfano

Chapter 8. Inferential Virtues and Common Epistemic Goods; Abrol Fairweather & Carlos Montemayor

Part II. Epistemic Virtue and Formal Epistemology

Chapter 9. Curiosity, Belief and Acquaintance; Ilhan Inan

Chapter 10. Epistemic Values and Disinformation; Don Fallis

Chapter 11. Defeasibility without inductivism; Juan Comasana

Part III. Virtues of Theories and Virtues of Theorists

Chapter 12. Acting to know; Adam Morton

Chapter 13. Is there a place for epistemic virtues in theory choice; Milena Ivanova

Chapter 14. “Bridging A Fault Line: On under determination and the ampliative adequacy of competing theories”; Guy Axtell

Chapter 15. Epistemic virtues and the success of science; Dana Tulodziecki

Chapter 16. Experimental Virtue: Perceptual Responsiveness and the Praxis of Scientific Observation; Shannon Vallor

Chapter 17. A Matter of Phronesis: Experiment and Virtue in Physics, a Case Study; Marilena diBuchianno

Part IV. Understanding, Explanation and Epistemic Virtue

Chapter 18. Knowledge and Understanding; Duncan Pritchard

Chapter 19. Understanding As Knowledge of Causes; Stephen Grimm

Chapter 20. Knowledge, Understanding and Virtue; Christoph Kelp.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

3-319-04672-1

OCLC:

881291209