Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy

243 Pages·2018·1.849 MB·English

by  Michel Croce, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza

Connecting Virtues
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Connecting Virtues
Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and
Political Philosophy
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Michel Croce andMaria Silvia Vaccarezza
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CONTENTS
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction 1
MICHELCROCEANDMARIASILVIAVACCAREZZA
Part1: MoralPhilosophy 13
1 Utrumsitunatantumveraenumeratiovirtutummoralium 15
SOPHIEGRACECHAPPELL
2 Generosity:APreliminaryAccountof aSurprisingly
NeglectedVirtue 23
CHRISTIANB.MILLER
3 AnEyeonParticularswiththeEndinSight:AnAccountof
AristotelianPhronesis 51
MARIASILVIAVACCAREZZA
4 HonestyasaVirtue 67
ALANT.WILSON
Part2: Epistemology 85
5 VirtueEpistemology,Enhancement,andControl 87
J.ADAMCARTER
6 EpistemicPaternalismandtheServiceConceptionof
EpistemicAuthority 107
MICHELCROCE
vi CONTENTS
7 NeuromediaandtheEpistemologyof Education 129
DUNCANPRITCHARD
8 EpistemicViceandMotivation 151
ALESSANDRATANESINI
Part3: PoliticalPhilosophy 169
9 Sensesof HumorasPoliticalVirtues 171
PHILLIPDEEN
10 Citizens’PoliticalPrudenceasaDemocraticVirtue 187
VALERIAOTTONELLI
11 HopeasaDemocraticCivicVirtue 205
NANCYE.SNOW
Index 225
NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS
J. Adam Carter is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
He works mainly in epistemology, and his publications have appeared
in such journals as Nouˆs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Analysis.
His book Metaepistemology and Relativism was published by Palgrave
Macmillanin2016.
Sophie Grace Chappell is a professor of philosophy at the Open Univer-
sity.ShewaseducatedatMagdalenCollege,Oxford,andtheUniversityof
Edinburgh.Shehaspublishedwidelyonethics,moralpsychology,episte-
mology,ancientphilosophy,andphilosophyof religion.Hermaincurrent
research is about epiphanies, immediate and revelatory encounters with
value.Sheliveswithherfamilyinthenortheastof Scotland.
Michel Croce is Early Stage Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of
PhilosophyattheUniversityof Edinburghandajuniorresearcheratthe
AretaiCenteronVirtues,Genoa.Hisresearchinterestslieattheintersec-
tionof epistemology,ethics,andthephilosophyof education.Hehaspub-
lishedseveralarticlesinthesefields.HealsocoauthoredEticadellevirtu`:
Un’introduzione,thefirstcriticalintroductiontovirtueethicspublishedin
Italian(2017,Carocci).
Phillip Deen is a senior lecturer in philosophy and humanities at the
Universityof NewHampshireandtheeditorof JohnDewey’sUnmodern
PhilosophyandModernPhilosophy.Hisworkonthehistoryof American
philosophy,theclimatedebate,civiceducation,andaestheticshasappeared
inHistoryofPoliticalThought,PublicAffairsQuarterly,andtheJournalof
ValueInquiry,amongothervenues.Heiscurrentlywritingabookonthe
ethicsof stand-upcomedy.
Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake
ForestUniversity.RecentpopularwritingshaveappearedintheWallStreet
viii NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS
Journal, Dallas Morning News, and Slate. He is the author of more than
seventy-fiveacademicpapersaswellasthreebookswithOxfordUniversity
Press,MoralCharacter:AnEmpiricalTheory(2013),CharacterandMoral
Psychology(2014),andTheCharacterGap:HowGoodAreWe?(2017).
Valeria Ottonelli is an associate professor of political philosophy at the
University of Genoa. Her main research interests are in the normative
theory of democracy and in thetheoryof justicein migration. Her work
has appeared in Political Studies, Journal of Political Philosophy, Critical
Reviewof SocialandPoliticalPhilosophy,InternationalMigrationReview,
andPolitics,PhilosophyandEconomics.
Duncan Pritchard is Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Irvine, California, and chair in Epistemology at the University of
Edinburgh. His monographs include Epistemic Luck (Oxford, 2005), The
NatureandValueof Knowledge(coauthored,Oxford,2010),Epistemologi-
calDisjunctivism(Oxford,2012),andEpistemicAngst:RadicalSkepticism
andtheGroundlessnessof OurBelieving(Princeton,2015).
Nancy E. Snow is a professor of philosophy and director of the Institute
fortheStudyofHumanFlourishingattheUniversityofOklahoma.Sheis
theauthorofVirtueasSocialIntelligence:AnEmpiricallyGroundedTheory
(Routledge, 2009) and more than forty papers on virtue and ethics more
broadly.Shehasalsoeditedorcoeditedsixvolumes,includingTheOxford
Handbook of Virtue (2018). She is currently cowriting a book on virtue
measurement.
AlessandraTanesiniisaprofessorof philosophyatCardiff University.She
is the author of An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies (Blackwell,
1999),of Wittgenstein:AFeministInterpretation(Polity,2004),andof sev-
eralarticlesonepistemology,feministphilosophy,thephilosophyof mind
and language, and Nietzsche. Her current work lies at the intersection of
ethics,thephilosophyof language,andepistemology,withafocusonepis-
temicvice,silencing,prejudice,andignorance.
MariaSilviaVaccarezzaisalecturerinethicsattheUniversityof Genoa
and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues. Her research
focusesonclassicalandcontemporaryAristotelianvirtuetheory.Among
herlatestpublicationsare“TheUnityof theVirtuesReconsidered:Com-
peting Accounts in Philosophy and Positive Psychology,”Review of Phi-
losophy and Psychology 8 (2017), and (with Michel Croce) “Educating
ThroughExemplars:AlternativePathstoVirtue,”TheoryandResearchin
Education15(2017).