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The Skillfulness of Virtue Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

The Skillfulness of Virtue By Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

The Skillfulness of Virtue by Matt Stichter (Washington State University)


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This book is for those interested in virtues and moral development. It provides an account of virtues as skills that we can work on improving, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. The book will be of special interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology and virtue education.

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The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives by Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation and skill acquisition, which he then uses as grounds to discuss virtue development as a process of skill acquisition. This account of virtue as skill has important implications for debates about virtue in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Furthermore, it engages seriously with criticisms of virtue theory that arise in moral psychology, as psychological experiments reveal that there are many obstacles to acting and thinking well, even for those with the best of intentions. Stichter draws on self-regulation strategies and examples of deliberate practice in skill acquisition to show how we can overcome some of these obstacles, and become more skillful in our moral and epistemic virtues.

About Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

Matt Stichter is Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters in ethical theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Self-regulation and expertise; 2. Moral virtues as skills; 3. Motivation in skill and virtue; 4. Skills and practical wisdom; 5. The situationist critique of virtue.

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CIN1108459382G
9781108459389
1108459382
The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives by Matt Stichter (Washington State University)
Used - Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2021-01-21
209
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