The current article presents the results of a study which developed an Italian adaptation of Podsakoff, Mackenzie, Moorman, and Fetter’s (1990) questionnaire, measuring organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) by referring to the following dimensions: Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy, and Civic Virtue. The original questionnaire was translated into Italian and modified in o...

Abstract Following Robert Adams's account of idolatry, this paper develops the concept epistemic idolatry. Where there is devotion belonging to truth but given a particular good, we find With in hand, motivationalist virtue epistemologists gain two theoretical advantages: their list defective motives can include intellectual motivation excess without implausible claim that, intellectually, one ...

Until recently, almost nothing had been written about the moral virtue of honesty in past 50 years Western analytic philosophy. Slowly, this is beginning to change. But not only kind there is. In paper, I focus specifically on intellectual cousin honesty, and offer a preliminary account its behavioral motivational dimensions. The will be centered intentionally distorting facts as person takes t...

Abstract Performing prosociality in public presents a paradox: only by doing so can people demonstrate their virtue and also influence others through example, yet observers may derogate actors’ behavior as mere “virtue signaling.” Here we investigate the role of observability one reason that engage such discounting.” Further, observers’ motivational inferences mechanism this effect, using compa...

In Zhuangzi’s philosophy, the intellectual virtues of humility and open-mindedness are best understood in context his epistemic perspectivism. The method, which urges knowers to pursue various diverse points view incorporate them into a broad perspective, is justified by second-order realization that all perspectives partial limited. This turn meta-virtue humility, defined as disposition become...

Abstract My main aim in this paper is to examine whether gossip should be categorized as an epistemically valuable character trait. Gossip satisfies the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for acquired trait classified intellectual virtue under responsibilist understanding of concept virtue. The excellent gossiper (i) motivated acquire epistemic goods through gossiping, (ii) reliably su...