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Intellectual Virtues Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)

Intellectual Virtues By Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)

Intellectual Virtues by Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)


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From the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood develop an approach they call 'regulative epistemology', exploring the connection between knowledge and intellectual virtue. In the course of their argument they analyse particular virtues of intellectual life - such as courage, generosity, and humility - in detail.

Intellectual Virtues Summary

Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology by Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)

Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before. Standing on the shoulders of recent epistemologists - including William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, and Linda Zagzebski - Roberts and Wood pursue epistemological questions by looking closely and deeply at particular traits of intellectual character such as love of knowledge, intellectual autonomy, intellectual generosity, and intellectual humility. Central to their vision is an account of intellectual goods that includes not just knowledge as properly grounded belief, but understanding and personal acquaintance, acquired and shared through the many social practices of actual intellectual life. This approach to intellectual virtue infuses the discipline of epistemology with new life, and makes it interesting to people outside the circle of professional epistemologists. It is epistemology for the whole intellectual community, as Roberts and Wood carefully sketch the ways in which virtues that would have been categorized earlier as moral make for agents who can better acquire, refine, and communicate important kinds of knowledge.

Intellectual Virtues Reviews

Review from previous edition Intellectual Virtues is a very rich, novel, and important contribution to the literature in character-based virtue epistemology; it is, in fact, the most important contribution in the last decade. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in virtue epistemology and it is sure to enjoy this status for many years to come. * Jason Baehr, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

About Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)

Robert C. Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Baylor University. W. Jay Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONTEXTS; PART TWO: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES

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NLS9780199575701
9780199575701
0199575703
Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology by Robert C. Roberts (Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University)
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Oxford University Press
2009-10-22
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