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- Examines an underdeveloped aspect of virtue epistemology, namely the interconnections between virtue epistemology and philosophy of science
- Contributes to the development of naturalistic perspectives in virtue epistemology
- Builds on recent empirical work in virtue ethics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 366)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Epistemic Virtue, Cognitive Science and Situationism
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Front Matter
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Epistemic Virtue and Formal Epistemology
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Virtues of Theories and Virtues of Theorists
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About this book
This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue; virtue theoretic solutions to under determination; epistemic virtues in the history of science; and the value of understanding.
Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including: epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity.
Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology.
Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question: can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue.
Keywords
- Ampliative Adequacy of Competing Theories
- Cognitive Science and Situationism
- Epistemic Virtue and Formal Epistemology
- Epistemic agency and reflective knowledge in virtue epistemology
- Epistemic values and disinformation
- Eudaimonistic virtue epistemology
- Function of Perception
- Inferential Virtues and Common Epistemic Goods
- Metacognition and intellectual virtue
- Perceptual responsiveness and the praxis of scientific belief
- Praxis of Scientific Observation
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This is a collection of nineteen papers, assembled and briefly introduced by Abrol Fairweather. Together they explore an incredibly broad and fertile range of the connections between virtue epistemology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science. … Anyone interested in virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, or naturalized epistemology should consider this book an excellent resource.” (Sarah Wright, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Abrol Fairweather
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtue Epistemology Naturalized
Book Subtitle: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Editors: Abrol Fairweather
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04672-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04671-6Published: 16 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34925-1Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04672-3Published: 27 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 360
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology, Ethics