Battaly Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5193-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Metaphilosophy

Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series ofessays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer thelatest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices,the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtueand emotion.
* Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring adual focus on ethics and epistemology
* Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectualvirtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and theconnections between virtue and emotion
* Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars thefoundation of ethics; and new theories of epistemic vices such asepistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence
* Represents one of the few collections to address both the moralvirtues and the epistemic virtues
* Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology -which emphasizes the importance of intellectual charactertraits

Autoren/Hrsg.

Battaly, Heather

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
1 Introduction: Virtue and Vice 1
HEATHER BATTALY
Part 1: The Structure of Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology
2 Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 21
ROGER CRISP
3 Exemplarist Virtue Theory 39
LINDA ZAGZEBSKI
4 Right Act, Virtuous Motive 57
THOMAS HURKA
Part 2: Virtue and Context
5 Agency Ascriptions in Ethics and Epistemology: Or, Navigating Intersections, Narrow and Broad 73
GUY AXTELL
6 Virtues, Social Roles, and Contextualism 95
SARAH WRIGHT
Part 3: Virtue and Emotion
7 Virtue, Emotion, and Attention 115
MICHAEL S. BRADY
8 Feeling Without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue-Acquisition 133
AMY COPLAN
Part 4: Virtues and Vices
9 A Challenge to Intellectual Virtue from Moral Virtue: The Case of Universal Love 153
CHRISTINE SWANTON
10 Open-Mindedness 173
WAYNE RIGGS
11 Epistemic Malevolence 189
JASON BAEHR
12 Epistemic Self-Indulgence 215
HEATHER BATTALY
Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Battaly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University Fullerton. Her primary areas of research are epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory. She has published articles on the intellectual virtues in Philosophical Papers, Philosophy Compass, and Teaching Philosophy; and is co-editor of Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. She is currently writing a book on the moral and intellectual virtues.