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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 | |