Intellectual Virtue Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology [Hardcover]

The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working on either side of the debate.

Introduction,Linda Zagzebski and Michael DePaul
Part One: Classical virtue ethics and virtue epistemology
1. The Structure of Virtue,Julia Annas
2. Intellectual Virtue: Emotions, Luck, and the Ancients,Nancy Sherman and Heath White
Part Two: Contemporary virtue ethics and epistemology
3. Virtue Ethics: Radical or Routine?,David Solomon
4. Practical Reason and its Virtues,J. L. A. Garcia
Part Three: The good of knowledge
5. Knowledge as Credit for True Belief,John Greco
6. Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth,Linda Zagzebski
7. The Place of Truth in Epistemology,Erenest Sosa
Part Four: Using virtue to redefine the problems of epistemology
8. How to be a Virtue Epistemologist,Christopher Hookway
9. Understanding 'Virtue' and the Virtue of Understanding,Wayne D. Riggs
10. Knowing Cognitive Selves,Christine McKinnon
Part Five: Applying virtue to epistemology: an intellectual virtue examined
11. Humility and Epistemic Goods,Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood
References
Index

one indication of the importance and timeliness of this anthology is that it makes room for fundamental critiques of mainstream epistemology. --Ethics