Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (California Loyola Marymount University)

Virtues of the Mind

An Inquiry Into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780521578264
• ISBN-10: 0521578264
• Artikelnr.: 22095332

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Methodology of Epistemology: 1. Using moral theory in epistemology
2. Difficulties in contemporary epistemology
3. More reasons to try a virtue approach: the relations between believing and feeling
4. An objection to modeling evaluation in epistemology on ethics: the dispute over the voluntariness of belief
5. Conclusion to Part 1: why center epistemology on the virtues
Part II. A Theory of Virtue and Vice: 1. Types of virtue theories
2. The nature of a virtue
3. Intellectual and moral virtue
4. The two components of intellectual virtue
5. The importance of phronesis
6. The definition of deontic concepts
7. Conclusion to Part 2: the scope of the moral
Part III. The Nature of Knowledge: 1. Knowledge and the ethics of belief
2. Defining knowledge
3. Gettier problems
4. Reliabilism
5. Plantinga's theory of proper function
6. Harmonizing internal and external aspects of knowing
7. Conclusion to Part 3: ethics, epistemology, and psychology
Bibliography
Index.