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Virtues of the mind : an inquiry into the nature of virtue and the ethical foundations of knowledge / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: xvi, 365 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521570603
  • 9780521570602
  • 0521578264
  • 9780521578264
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD176 .Z34 1996
Contents:
pt. I. The methodology of epistemology. 1. Using moral theory in epistemology. 2. Difficulties in contemporary epistemology. 3. More reasons to try a virtue approach: the relations between believing and feeling. 4. An objection to modeling evaluation in epistemology on ethics: the dispute over the voluntariness of belief. 5. Conclusion to Part I: why center epistemology on the virtues? -- pt. II. A theory of virtue and vice. 1. Types of virtue theories. 2. The nature of a virtue. 3. Intellectual and moral virtues. 4. The two components of intellectual virtues. 5. The importance of phronesis. 6. The definition of deontic concepts. 7. Conclusion to Part II: the scope of the moral -- pt. III. The nature of knowledge. 1. Knowledge and the ethics of belief. 2. Defining knowledge. 3. Gettier problems. 4. Reliabilism. 5. Plantinga's theory of proper function. 6. Harmonizing internal and external aspects of knowing. 7. Conclusion to Part III: ethics, epistemology, and psychology.
Summary: Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics. The book develops the concept of an intellectual virtue, and then shows how the concept can be used to give an account of the major concepts in epistemology, including the concept of knowledge. This highly original work of philosophy for professionals will also provide students with an excellent introduction to epistemology, virtue theory, and the relationship between ethics and epistemology.--PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and indexes.

pt. I. The methodology of epistemology. 1. Using moral theory in epistemology. 2. Difficulties in contemporary epistemology. 3. More reasons to try a virtue approach: the relations between believing and feeling. 4. An objection to modeling evaluation in epistemology on ethics: the dispute over the voluntariness of belief. 5. Conclusion to Part I: why center epistemology on the virtues? -- pt. II. A theory of virtue and vice. 1. Types of virtue theories. 2. The nature of a virtue. 3. Intellectual and moral virtues. 4. The two components of intellectual virtues. 5. The importance of phronesis. 6. The definition of deontic concepts. 7. Conclusion to Part II: the scope of the moral -- pt. III. The nature of knowledge. 1. Knowledge and the ethics of belief. 2. Defining knowledge. 3. Gettier problems. 4. Reliabilism. 5. Plantinga's theory of proper function. 6. Harmonizing internal and external aspects of knowing. 7. Conclusion to Part III: ethics, epistemology, and psychology.

Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics. The book develops the concept of an intellectual virtue, and then shows how the concept can be used to give an account of the major concepts in epistemology, including the concept of knowledge. This highly original work of philosophy for professionals will also provide students with an excellent introduction to epistemology, virtue theory, and the relationship between ethics and epistemology.--PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.

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