Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy.
* Includes groundbreaking chapters offering cutting-edge research on the topic of the virtues
* Provides insights into the application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues, virtuous dispositions, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy
* Examines the relevance of the virtues in the current debates in social epistemology, the epistemology of education, and civic education
* Features work from world-leading and internationally recognized philosophers working on the virtues today
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Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
MICHEL CROCE AND MARIA SILVIA VACCAREZZA
Part 1: Moral Philosophy 13
1 Utrum sit una tantum vera enumeratio virtutum moralium 15
SOPHIE GRACE CHAPPELL
2 Generosity: A Preliminary Account of a Surprisingly Neglected Virtue 23
CHRISTIAN B. MILLER
3 An Eye on Particulars with the End in Sight: An Account of Aristotelian Phronesis 51
MARIA SILVIA VACCAREZZA
4 Honesty as a Virtue 67
ALAN T. WILSON
Part 2: Epistemology 85
5 Virtue Epistemology, Enhancement, and Control 87
J. ADAM CARTER
6 Epistemic Paternalism and the Service Conception of Epistemic Authority 107
MICHEL CROCE
7 Neuromedia and the Epistemology of Education 129
DUNCAN PRITCHARD
8 Epistemic Vice and Motivation 151
ALESSANDRA TANESINI
Part 3: Political Philosophy 169
9 Senses of Humor as Political Virtues 171
PHILLIP DEEN
10 Citizens’ Political Prudence as a Democratic Virtue 187
VALERIA OTTONELLI
11 Hope as a Democratic Civic Virtue 205
NANCY E. SNOW
Index 225
关于作者
MICHEL CROCE, PHD, is Early Stage Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in epistemology, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of education.
MARIA SILVIA VACCAREZZA, PHD, is a lecturer in ethics at the University of Genoa and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on several topics, including ethical naturalism, the unity of the virtues debate, moral exemplarism, and exemplarist approaches to moral education.
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