Inquiry and Agency
A Theory of Intellectual Virtues and Vices
Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-285687-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-285687-6 (ISBN)
A systematic and systematic account of the nature, structure, and status of intellectual virtues and vices. It provides a conceptual model of intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, and intellectual courage and intellectual vices like dogmatism, closed-mindedness, and intellectual arrogance.
In Inquiry and Agency, Jason Baehr develops a systematic account of the nature, structure, and evaluative status of intellectual virtues and vices. Drawing on a theory of moral virtue by Robert Adams (2006), Baehr argues that intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, and intellectual courage are ways of "excellently being for epistemic goods" that reflect favorably on who we are as persons, and that intellectual vices like dogmatism, narrow-mindedness, and intellectual arrogance are ways of falling short of this standard that contribute negatively to our personal worth. Inquiry and Agency is the most in-depth and systematic treatment of intellectual virtues and vices since Linda Zagzebski's pioneering work Virtues of the Mind (1996). While advancing several debates in virtue epistemology, it proposes a model of intellectual virtues and vices that will be accessible to non-experts and useful to researchers in other disciplines. Inquiry and Agency is the product of decades of reflection by a leading virtue epistemologist. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the characterological dimensions of the life of the mind.
In Inquiry and Agency, Jason Baehr develops a systematic account of the nature, structure, and evaluative status of intellectual virtues and vices. Drawing on a theory of moral virtue by Robert Adams (2006), Baehr argues that intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, and intellectual courage are ways of "excellently being for epistemic goods" that reflect favorably on who we are as persons, and that intellectual vices like dogmatism, narrow-mindedness, and intellectual arrogance are ways of falling short of this standard that contribute negatively to our personal worth. Inquiry and Agency is the most in-depth and systematic treatment of intellectual virtues and vices since Linda Zagzebski's pioneering work Virtues of the Mind (1996). While advancing several debates in virtue epistemology, it proposes a model of intellectual virtues and vices that will be accessible to non-experts and useful to researchers in other disciplines. Inquiry and Agency is the product of decades of reflection by a leading virtue epistemologist. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the characterological dimensions of the life of the mind.
Jason Baehr is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he has been teaching for over 20 years. Baehr is a leading expert in both theoretical and applied virtue epistemology. His book The Inquiring Mind (OUP, 2011) is one of the most cited works in the field.
Introduction
1: Intellectual Character: Virtues and Vices
2: The Structure of Intellectual Virtues
3: The Value of Intellectual Virtues
4: Theoretical Wisdom
5: Practical Wisdom
6: Intellectual Vices
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 220 mm |
| Gewicht | 474 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-285687-1 / 0192856871 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-285687-6 / 9780192856876 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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