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Phronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers and psychologists for millennia. In this book Kristján Kristjánsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in the current literatures, and pushing the research agenda in new directions.
List of contents
- 1: Aims and Scope: Getting Phronesis Right
- 2: A Neo-Aristotelian Phronesis Model and Some Philosophical Alternatives
- 3: 3. The History of Wisdom Research in Psychology, and the New Common Model
- 4: 3. Comparing Our Phronesis Model with the New 'Common Model' and Other Psychological Alternatives
- 5: The 'Gappiness Problem' in Moral Psychology and the Relevance of Phronesis
- 6: A New Measure of Phronesis: Empirical Findings
- 7: Phronesis in Professional (Medical) Ethics
- 8: Phronesis and the Civic Virtues
- 9: Collective Phronesis
- 10: Difficult Decisions and Post-Phronetic Pain
- 11: Educating Phronesis
- 12: Concluding Remarks
About the author
Professor Kristján Kristjánsson's research focuses on issues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. He is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the University of Birmingham. He is also Editor of Journal of Moral Education. He has published extensively in international journals on his research topics. Among his books are The Self and Its Emotions (C.U.P., 2010), Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology (C.U.P., 2013), Aristotelian Character Education (Routledge, 2015), Virtuous Emotions (O.U.P., 2018), Flourishing as the Aim of Education (Routledge, 2020), and Friendship for Virtue (O.U.P., 2022).
Professor Blaine J. Fowers is a Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Miami, and conducts theoretical and empirical investigations of virtue and flourishing. He studies virtues, higher order goals, and their links to choiceworthy goods and human flourishing. Fowers has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, books, and book chapters. He has given dozens of Keynote and Invited Presentations. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham, England in 2016. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of the Joseph B. Gittler Award for Contributions to the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology.
Summary
Phronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers and psychologists for millennia. In this book Kristján Kristjánsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in the current literatures, and pushing the research agenda in new directions.
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This book represents a ground-breaking collaboration between a philosopher (Kristjánsson, Univ. of Birmingham, England) and a psychologist, whose aim is to develop a model of the intellectual meta-virtue phronesis (wisdom) that can be studied empirically with the tools and methods of the social sciences. Recommended.
