Description

From the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood develop an approach they call 'regulative epistemology', exploring the connection between knowledge and intellectual virtue. In the course of their argument they analyse particular virtues of intellectual life - such as courage, generosity, and humility - in detail.

Features

• A new approach to intellectual virtues: 'regulative epistemology'
• Looks closely at virtues such as love of knowledge, intellectual generosity, and intellectual humility
• Opens epistemology to non-philosophers - addressed to all engaged in the intellectual life

Reviews

"Intellectual Virtues is a major contribution to the literature in "character-based" virtue epistemology. It is a very rich, novel, and important contribution to the literature in character-based virtue epistemology; it is, in fact, the most important contribution in the last decade. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in virtue epistemology and it is sure to enjoy this status for many years to come."--Jason Baehr, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Product Details

339 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-928367-5ISBN10: 0-19-928367-2

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