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Zusatztext While there is a vast amount of writing on the concept of a virtue and its role in various areas of philosophy, this literature is fairly fragmented, with historians, ethicists, and epistemologists rarely engaged in direction conversation with one another. In light of this, Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology is a most welcome collection of essays in which virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicistsincluding ethicists grounded in the history of philosophyfor the first time take up various issues in consultation with each other. The volume is divided into five parts and contains eleven articles by some of the leading scholars in both ethics and epistemology; the overall quality of the contributions is very high. . . . Intellectual Virtue is a superb collection of essays that anyone interested in either epistemology or ethics should find both extremely valuable and engaging. Klappentext 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 on either side of the debate. Zusammenfassung Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its inspiration from virtue ethics, this is the first book that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together to contribute their particular expertise, and the first that is devoted to the topic of intellectual virtue. All new and right up to date, the papers collected here by Zagzebski and DePaul demonstrate the benefit of each branch of philosophy to the other. Intellectual Virtue will be required reading for anyone working in either field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Classical virtue ethics and virtue epistemology 1: Julia Annas: The Structure of Virtue 2: Nancy Sherman and Heath White: Intellectual Virtue: Emotions, Luck, and the Ancients Part Two: Contemporary virtue ethics and epistemology 3: David Solomon: Virtue Ethics: Radical or Routine? 4: J. L. A. Garcia: Practical Reason and its Virtues Part Three: The good of knowledge 5: John Greco: Knowledge as Credit for True Belief 6: Linda Zagzebski: Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth 7: Erenest Sosa: The Place of Truth in Epistemology Part Four: Using virtue to redefine the problems of epistemology 8: Christopher Hookway: How to be a Virtue Epistemologist 9: Wayne D. Riggs: Understanding 'Virtue' and the Virtue of Understanding 10: Christine McKinnon: Knowing Cognitive Selves Part Five: Applying virtue to epistemology: an intellectual virtue examined 11: Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood: Humility and Epistemic Goods References Index ...
