An overview is presented of what I take to be (some main aspects of) the role intellectual virtues within epistemological enterprise. Traditionally, theory knowledge has been thought central project, but since, as explain, aren’t required for knowledge, this might suggest that they have only a marginal play in debates. argue against suggestion by showing how are fact crucial several core (and i...

This essay extends my side of a discussion begun earlier with Duncan Pritchard, the recent author of Epistemic Luck. Pritchard’s work contributes significantly to improving the “diagnostic appeal” of a neo-Moorean philosophical response to radical scepticism. While agreeing with Pritchard in many respects, the paper questions the need for his concession to the sceptic that the neo-Moorean is ca...

I offer an overview of Alessandra Tanesini’s discussion how best to educate for intellectual virtue in the final chapter her book The Mismeasure Self. identify unifying theme behind most objections existing approaches, namely that they fail instil proper motivations virtue, and raise issue about whether preferred approach, self-affirmation, avoids this worry. argue it is not clear does; particu...

This paper argues that the concept of primal wonder in P4C, proposed by Thomas E. Jackson, can be seen as a “sprout” or seed intellectual virtue. My understanding his insight is inspired Mengzi’s view moral cultivation and Aristotle’s eudaimonist account virtue ethics. According to Mengzi, all humans possess four innate sprouts virtue, aim education nurture these so they grow up into fully ripe...

How is intellectual virtue related to critical thinking? Can one be a thinker without exercising virtue? intellectually virtuous thereby being thinker? should our answers these questions inform the instruction of These were informing 2023 Charles McCracken endowed lectureships given at Michigan State University by Professors Harvey Siegel and Jason Baehr. This brief commentary introduces their ...

While openmindedness is often cited as a paradigmatic example of an intellectual virtue, the connection between openmindedness and truth is tenuous. Several strategies for reconciling this tension are considered, and each is shown to fail; it is thus claimed that openmindedness, when intellectually virtuous, bears no interesting essential connection to truth. In the final section, the implicati...

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 ...