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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827583603321

Titolo

Intellectual virtue : perspectives from ethics and epistemology / / edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-171928-5

1-281-34608-X

0-19-153097-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DePaulMichael R <1954-> (Michael Raymond)

ZagzebskiLinda Trinkaus <1946->

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Virtue

Virtue epistemology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE. CLASSICAL VIRTUE ETHICS AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY""; ""1. The Structure of Virtue""; ""2. Intellectual Virtue: Emotions, Luck, and the Ancients""; ""PART TWO. CONTEMPORARY VIRTUE ETHICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY""; ""3. Virtue Ethics: Radical or Routine?""; ""4. Practical Reason and its Virtues""; ""PART THREE. THE GOOD OF KNOWLEDGE""; ""5. Knowledge as Credit for True Belief""; ""6. Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth""; ""7. The Place of Truth in Epistemology""

""PART FOUR. USING VIRTUE TO REDEFINE THE PROBLEMS OF EPISTEMOLOGY""""8. How to be a Virtue Epistemologist""; ""9. Understanding �Virtue� and the Virtue of Understanding""; ""10. Knowing Cognitive Selves""; ""PART FIVE. APPLYING VIRTUE TO EPISTEMOLOGY: AN INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE EXAMINED""; ""11. Humility and Epistemic Goods""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought



to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working in either field. - ;Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has