Intellectual virtue [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from ethics and epistemology / / edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Virtue; Virtue epistemology
• Altri autori: DePaulMichael R <1954-> (Michael Raymond) ZagzebskiLinda Trinkaus <1946->
• 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 â€?Virtueâ€? 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Intellectual virtue
• ISBN: 0-19-171928-5; 1-281-34608-X; 0-19-153097-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827583603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II