Vice Epistemology

Author : Ian James Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351380869
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vice Epistemology written by Ian James Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge, and what is their role in sustaining patterns of ignorance? What is their relation to implicit or unconscious bias? How do epistemic vices and systems of social oppression relate to one another? Do we unwittingly absorb such traits from the process of socialization and communities around us? Are epistemic vices traits for which we can blamed? Can there be institutional and collective epistemic vices? This book seeks to answer these important questions about the vices of the mind and their roles in our social and epistemic lives, and is the first collection of its kind. Organized into three parts, chapters by outstanding scholars explore the nature of epistemic vices, specific examples of these vices, and case studies in applied vice epistemology, including education and politics. Alongside these foundational questions, the volume offers sophisticated accounts of vices both new and familiar. These include epistemic arrogance and servility, epistemic injustice, epistemic snobbishness, conspiratorial thinking, procrastination, and forms of closed-mindedness. Vice Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law, and education.

Author : Quassim Cassam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198826907
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vices of the Mind written by Quassim Cassam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, he considers whether we are responsible for such failings, and what we can do about them.

Author : José Medina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199929025
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Resistance written by José Medina and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Author : Alessandra Tanesini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198858833
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mismeasure of the Self written by Alessandra Tanesini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Arrogance, narcissism, haughtiness, and vanity are among the first group. Self-abasement, fatalism, servility, and timidity exemplify the second. This book shows these traits to be to vices of self-evaluation and describes their pervasive harmful effects in some detail. Even though the influence of these traits extends to any aspect of life, the focus of this book is their damaging impact on the life of the intellect. Tanesini develops and defends a view of these vices that puts vicious motivations at their core. The analyses developed in this work build on empirical research in attitude psychology and on philosophical theories in virtue ethics and epistemology. The book concludes with a positive proposal for weakening vice and promoting virtue.

Author : Heather Battaly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351931
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic written by Heather Battaly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion. Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring a dual focus on ethics and epistemology Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars the foundation of ethics; and new theories of epistemic vices such as epistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence Represents one of the few collections to address both the moral virtues and the epistemic virtues Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology - which emphasizes the importance of intellectual character traits

Author : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423728
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Self-Deception written by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

Author : Quassim Cassam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198826907
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vices of the Mind written by Quassim Cassam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, he considers whether we are responsible for such failings, and what we can do about them.

Author : Jason S. Baehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960407X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquiring Mind written by Jason S. Baehr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology.

Author : Aaron Zimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136965343
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Epistemology written by Aaron Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know right from wrong? Do we even have moral knowledge? Moral epistemology studies these and related questions about our understanding of virtue and vice. It is one of philosophy’s perennial problems, reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Hume and Kant, and has recently been the subject of intense debate as a result of findings in developmental and social psychology. In this outstanding introduction to the subject Aaron Zimmerman covers the following key topics: What is moral epistemology? What are its methods? Including a discussion of Socrates, Gettier and contemporary theories of knowledge skepticism about moral knowledge based on the anthropological record of deep and persistent moral disagreement, including contextualism moral nihilism, including debates concerning God and morality and the relation between moral knowledge and our motives and reasons to act morally epistemic moral scepticism, intuitionism and the possibility of inferring ‘ought’ from ‘is,’ discussing the views of Locke, Hume, Kant, Ross, Audi, Thomson, Harman, Sturgeon and many others how children acquire moral concepts and become more reliable judges criticisms of those who would reduce moral knowledge to value-neutral knowledge or attempt to replace moral belief with emotion. Throughout the book Zimmerman argues that our belief in moral knowledge can survive sceptical challenges. He also draws on a rich range of examples from Plato’s Meno and Dickens’ David Copperfield to Bernard Madoff and Saddam Hussein. Including chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Moral Epistemology is essential reading for all students of ethics, epistemology and moral psychology.

Author : Jennifer Lackey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199656606
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Groups written by Jennifer Lackey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Lackey presents a ground-breaking exploration of the epistemology of groups, and its implications for group agency and responsibility. She argues that group belief and knowledge depend on what individual group members do or are capable of doing, while being subject to group-level normative requirements.