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Introduction | |
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Intellectual virtue: some examples | |
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Virtue epistemology | |
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A very brief history | |
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Four varieties of character-based virtue epistemology | |
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An overview of the book | |
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Intellectual Virtues | |
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Some natural groupings of intellectual virtues | |
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Virtues, faculties, talents, temperaments, and skills | |
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Faculties | |
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Talents | |
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Temperaments | |
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Skills | |
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Conclusion | |
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Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue | |
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Zagzebski's account of knowledge | |
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Are intellectual virtues (plus true belief) sufficient for knowledge? | |
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Are intellectual virtues necessary for knowledge? | |
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Low-grade "knowledge" is not genuine knowledge | |
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Mimicking an intellectually virtuous agent | |
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"Low-level" virtuous motives and actions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Prospects for Strong Conservative VE | |
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Virtue and Character in Reliabilism | |
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The exclusion of character virtues within reliabilist epistemology | |
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Character virtues as reliabilist knowledge-makers | |
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Theoretical reverberations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue | |
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Problem cases | |
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Cases of defective inquiry | |
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Cases of defective "doxastic handling" of evidence | |
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Modifying evidentialism | |
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BonJour's evidentialism | |
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Conclusion | |
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A Personal Worth Conception of Intellectual Virtue | |
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Preliminaries | |
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Personal worth and intellectual virtue | |
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Personal intellectual worth | |
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Clarifications | |
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The basis of personal worth simpliciter | |
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The basis of personal intellectual worth | |
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The account summarized | |
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The broad structure of an intellectual virtue | |
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Assessing the account | |
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Intellectual carefulness and thoroughness | |
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Creativity and originality | |
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Intellectual conscientiousness | |
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Intellectual generosity | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Personal Worth Conception and Its Rivals | |
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Similar conceptions | |
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Hurka's "recursive" conception | |
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Adams and "excellence in being for the good" | |
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Dissimilar conceptions | |
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Driver's consequentialist account | |
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Hursthouse's naturalism | |
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Zagzebski's "motivational" account | |
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Conclusion | |
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Open-Mindedness | |
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Some initial characterizations of open-mindedness | |
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Open-mindedness: a unified account | |
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The conceptual core of open-mindedness | |
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A definition of open-mindedness | |
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Open-mindedness and other cognitive excellences | |
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When to be open-minded? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Intellectual Courage | |
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Intellectual courage vs. moral courage | |
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Some examples | |
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The "context" of intellectual courage | |
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The "substance" of intellectual courage | |
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Intellectual courage: a definition | |
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Challenging cases | |
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Ill-motivated courage? | |
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Easy courage? | |
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When to be intellectually courageous? | |
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The Status and Future of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology | |
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Four varieties of character-based virtue epistemology | |
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Assessing the alternatives | |
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Strong Conservative VE | |
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Weak Conservative VE | |
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Strong Autonomous VE | |
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Weak Autonomous VE | |
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A final objection | |
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Appendix: On the Distinction between Intellectual and Moral Virtues | |
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Belief vs. action | |
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A unifying principle for intellectual virtues | |
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A teleological account | |
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An alternative proposal | |
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Implications | |
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Driver on intellectual and moral virtue | |
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References | |
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Index | |