Jason Baehr

The Inquiring Mind

On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology

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Produktbeschreibung

Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780199604074
• ISBN-10: 019960407X
• Artikelnr.: 33253857

Autorenporträt

Jason Baehr is an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. He works in the areas of epistemology and virtue theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Intellectual Virtues
3: Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue
4: Virtue and Character in Reliabilism
5: Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue
6: A Personal Worth Conception of Intellectual Virtue
7: The Personal Worth Conception and Its Rivals
8: Open-Mindedness
9: Intellectual Courage
10: The Status and Future of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology
Appendix: On the Distinction between Intellectual and Moral Virtues
References
Index