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27Educating for intellectual pride and ameliorating servility in contexts of epistemic injusticeEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (3): 301-314. 2023.Some of the students in our classrooms doubt their intellectual strengths—their knowledge, abilities, and skills. They may be unaware of the intellectual strengths they have, or may ignore, lack confidence in, or under-estimate them. They may even incorrectly judge themselves to be intellectually inferior to their peers. Students who do such things consistently are deficient in the virtue of intellectual pride—in appropriately ‘owning’ their intellectual strengths—and are on their way to develop…Read more
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26Countering Servility through Pride and HumilityMidwest Studies in Philosophy 45 333-370. 2021.This article argues that an interlocutor’s deference and open-mindedness can indicate servility rather than virtuous humility. Section 1 evaluates an influential philosophical analysis of the virtue of humility and two psychological measures, all of which emphasize the contrast between humility and arrogance. Section 2 develops a philosophical analysis of servility, building on the limitations-owning view. It argues that servility is an unwillingness or inability to be attentive to and own one’s…Read more
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20Access denied: epistemic obstruction and the distribution of knowledgeSynthese 201 (1): 1-20. 2022.
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18Epistemic Values: Collected Papers in Epistemology, by Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiMind 132 (528): 1193-1201. 2022.Linda Zagzebski’s work in analytic epistemology is largely responsible for several sea changes in the field in the late twentieth century. Coming from one of th.
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17Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.One of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, William P. Alston is a leading light in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of language. In this volume, twelve leading philosophers critically discuss the central topics of his work in these areas, including perception, epistemic circularity, justification, the problem of religious diversity, and truth.
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17Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 136-139. 2009.
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14Measuring and mismeasuring the selfInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This article evaluates Alessandra Tanesini’s analyses of the intellectual virtues and vices of self-assessment, as characterized in her book The Mismeasure of the Self (2021 Tanesini, A. 2021. The Mismeasure of the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[Crossref], [Google Scholar]). Section 1 explains Tanesini’s rich accounts of the virtues of intellectual humility and pride. Contra Tanesini, section 2 suggests an alternative account according to which the intellectual virtues of humility and pr…Read more
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10Introduction: virtue and viceIn Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: The Structure of Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology Virtue and Context Virtue and Emotion Virtues and Vices Acknowledgments References.
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10Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.One of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, William P. Alston is a leading light in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of language. In this volume, twelve leading philosophers critically discuss the central topics of his work in these areas, including perception, epistemic circularity, justification, the problem of religious diversity, and truth.
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10Detecting Epistemic Vice in Higher Education Policy: Epistemic Insensibility in the Seven Solutions and the REFIn Ben Kotzee (ed.), Education and the Growth of Knowledge, Wiley. 2013-12-25.This article argues that the Seven Solutions in the US, and the Research Excellence Framework in the UK, manifest the vice of epistemic insensibility. Section I provides an overview of Aristotle's analysis of moral vice in people. Section II applies Aristotle's analysis to epistemic vice, developing an account of epistemic insensibility. In so doing, it contributes a new epistemic vice to the field of virtue epistemology. Section III argues that the (US) Seven Breakthrough Solutions and, to a le…Read more
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6Epistemic self-indulgenceIn Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Aristotle on Moral Temperance, Self‐Indulgence, and Insensibility Epistemic Temperance, Self‐Indulgence, and Insensibility Acknowledgments References.
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5A Pluralist Theory of VirtueIn Mark Alfano (ed.), Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, Routledge. pp. 7-21. 2015.
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3Closed-mindedness as an intellectual viceIn Christoph Kelp & John Greco (eds.), Virtue Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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2Thin concepts to the rescue: Thinning the concepts of epistemic justification and intellectual virtueIn Abrol Fairweather & Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, Oxford University Press. pp. 98--116. 2001.
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1Closed-mindedness and arroganceIn Alessandra Tanesini & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2020.
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1Introduction: From Epistemic Vices to Vice EpistemologyIn Ian James Kidd, Quassim Cassam & Heather Battaly (eds.), Vice Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 1-17. 2020.We provide an overview of contemporary vice epistemology, the history of philosophical study of epistemic vices, and the chapters in the volume.
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Intellectual character education : some lessons from vice epistemologyIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. AlstonTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (4): 750-751. 2007.One of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, William P. Alston is a leading light in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of language. In this volume, twelve leading philosophers critically discuss the central topics of his work in these areas, including perception, epistemic circularity, justification, the problem of religious diversity, and truth
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Intellectual virtue and knowledgeIn Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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What Are the Virtues of Virtue Epistemology?Dissertation, Syracuse University. 2000.Unlike much of contemporary analytic epistemology, virtue epistemology focuses on the intellectual virtues and vices of an agent rather than her justified beliefs or knowledge. By and large, contemporary virtue epistemologists are interested in explaining justified belief and knowledge in terms of the intellectual virtues. In contrast, justification-and knowledge based theorists will explain the intellectual virtues in terms of justification or knowledge, if they address the virtues at all. ;I b…Read more
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Intellectual character education : some lessons from vice epistemologyIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.