The Inquiring mind : on intellectual virtues and virtue epistemology
Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflectio...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: | Virtues Virtue epistemology Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology. 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Intellectual virtue: some examples -- 1.2 Virtue epistemology -- 1.2.1 A very brief history -- 1.2.2 Four varieties of character-based virtue epistemology -- 1.3 An overview of the book -- 2 Intellectual Virtues -- 2.1 Some natural groupings of intellectual virtues -- 2.2 Virtues, faculties, talents, temperaments, and skills -- 2.2.1 Faculties -- 2.2.2 Talents -- 2.2.3 Temperaments -- 2.2.4 Skills -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue -- 3.1 Zagzebski's account of knowledge -- 3.2 Are intellectual virtues (plus true belief) sufficient for knowledge? -- 3.3 Are intellectual virtues necessary for knowledge? -- 3.3.1 Low-grade "knowledge" is not genuine knowledge -- 3.3.2 Mimicking an intellectually virtuous agent -- 3.3.3 "Low-level" virtuous motives and actions -- 3.3.4 Conclusion -- 3.4 Prospects for Strong Conservative VE -- 4 Virtue and Character in Reliabilism -- 4.1 The exclusion of character virtues within reliabilist epistemology -- 4.2 Character virtues as reliabilist knowledge-makers -- 4.3 Theoretical reverberations -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue -- 5.1 Problem cases -- 5.1.1 Cases of defective inquiry -- 5.1.2 Cases of defective "doxastic handling" of evidence -- 5.2 Modifying evidentialism -- 5.3 BonJour's evidentialism -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 A Personal Worth Conception of Intellectual Virtue -- 6.1 Preliminaries -- 6.2 Personal worth and intellectual virtue -- 6.2.1 Personal intellectual worth -- 6.2.2 Clarifications -- 6.2.3 The basis of personal worth simpliciter -- 6.2.4 The basis of personal intellectual worth -- 6.2.5 The account summarized -- 6.2.6 The broad structure of an intellectual virtue -- 6.3 Assessing the account -- 6.3.1 Intellectual carefulness and thoroughness -- 6.3.2 Creativity and originality. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191619113 0191619116 9780199604074 019960407X |