Unity of the intellectual virtues

Biogerontology and the intellectual virtues.

The case for prioritizing the study of the biology of aging can be persuasively made by making explicit its connection to the exercise of the intellectual virtues needed to realize well-ordered science. These intellectual virtues include a range of attitudes and dispositions integral to all areas of science (e.g. sensitivity to details, adaptability of intellect, the detective's virtues), but t...

The Unity of the Virtues in Abelard's Dialogus

Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology

This is an ambitious book, in two ways. First, it advocates a drastic transformation of contemporary epistemology’s scope and method. Second, it exemplifies a new way of doing epistemology, plumbing the depths of epistemic psychology by subtly characterizing the nature of, and interrelations among, a host of intellectual traits. Part I critiques standard “analytic” epistemology and expounds the...

aquinas "defends" aristotle in that intellectual virtues need the direction of moral virtues

terence irwin argues that aquinas answered a question that aristotle had raised but had not answered. the question is if there is any relation between intellectual virtues and moral virtues. the answer is yes, moral virtues direct intellectual virtues to attain the final end. moral virtues show in what areas one should think, how much other things should be attended to, and how much one should ...

Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice

My concern in this article is with two perennial questions in the philosophy of education and educational theory: What are the proper aims or goals of education? What are the most fitting ways of achieving these goals? The answers I defend draw heavily from recent research within virtue epistemology on intellectual character virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual c...