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Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology
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Some of the most interesting work in late-20th-century epistemology reintroduced, from ancient and medieval philosophy, the idea of an intellectual virtue and the related idea of proper epistemic function. But most of that work employed such concepts, with questionable success, in the interest of defining justification, warrant, or knowledge; and little or none of it offered detailed analyses of intellectual virtues. This book proposes and illustrates a different purpose for epistemology, one that we see in early modern thinkers, especially John Locke — namely that of guiding, refining, and informing the epistemic practices of the intellectual segment of the population. One important aspect of the project of such a ‘regulative epistemology’ is the intellectual character of the epistemic agent. For this purpose, fairly detailed sketches of particular intellectual virtues and of virtues' relations to epistemic goods, epistemic faculties, and epistemic practices, gain special importance. An underlying thesis is that a strict dichotomy between the intellectual virtues and the moral virtues is a mistake.
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Virtue responsibilism considers the development of the subjects' cognitive character as an intrinsic good for the contribution it plays to human flourishing, which is valuable for its own sake.
“As presented in Sect.1.1, virtue responsibilism considers the development of the subjects' cognitive character as an intrinsic good for the contribution it plays to human flourishing, which is valuable for its own sake (Baehr, 2016;Pritchard, 2014;Roberts & Wood, 2007).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Roberts, R. C., & Wood, W. J.
- Affiliations
- Baylor University (US)
- Wheaton College - Illinois (US)
- ORCID
- Roberts, Robert C.
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2007-01-11
- OpenAlex
- W4245126229
- Cited by
- 679
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 64 · 2025: 108 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 94 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 26.22
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Keywords
- intellectual virtues, epistemic practices, epistemic goods, moral virtues, John Locke, early modern epistemology, ancient and medieval philosophy, justification, warrants, knowledge
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