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List of contents
1. Introduction
2. Maria Montessori’s Interested Empiricism.
3. Intelligence, the Unconscious, and the Body.
4. Epistemic Virtues.
5. Intellectual Character.
6. Intellectual Love.
7. Sensory Acuity and Sensory Attentiveness.
8. Physical Dexterity.
9. Intellectual Patience and Quickness.
10. Intellectual Humility and Courage.
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Patrick R. Frierson is Professor of Philosophy at Whitman College, USA.
Summary
Drawing on the work of Maria Montessori and contemporary virtue epistemologists such as Linda Zagzebski and Jason Baehr, Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology presents a new interpretation of the nature of intellectual agency and its associated virtues.
Focusing on Montessori’s interpretation of specific virtues including sensory attentiveness, intellectual love and intellectual humility, it discusses why these are virtues, why one can be held responsible for them, and how they relate to each other. Moreover, it considers pedagogical implications of considering these capacities to be virtues. Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology not only reveals the value of seeing Montessori as a virtue epistemologist, it encourages educationalists to take seriously the cultivation of intellectual virtues as an important part of the education of children.
Foreword
Applying virtue epistemology to educational theory this study presents a new understanding of intellectual virtues.
Additional text
This book is among the first, if not the first, in the analytic epistemology literature to consider Maria Montessori as a philosophers in her ow right. This is a wonderful and lucid guide to the contributions a heretofore neglected philosopher can make to contemporary debates in virtue epistemology.
