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Vice Epistemology 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 igno- rance? 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 be 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 four 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. Ian James Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. Heather Battaly is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA. Quassim Cassam is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. Vice Epistemology Edited by Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly, and Quassim Cassam First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly and Quassim Cassam; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly and Quassim Cassam to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kidd, Ian James, 1983- editor. | Battaly, Heather D., 1969- editor. | Cassam, Quassim, editor. Title: Vice epistemology / edited by Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly, and Quassim Cassam. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2020016484 (print) | LCCN 2020016485 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138504431 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315146058 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Vices. | Knowledge, Theory of. Classification: LCC BD176 .V53 2020 (print) | LCC BD176 (ebook) | DDC 179/.8–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016484 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016485 ISBN: 978-1-138-50443-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-14605-8 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed … Let us then strive to think well; that is the basic principle of morality. Blaise Pascal, Pensées, §200 (Lafuma) For all those of us struggling against the vices of the mind Contents Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: from epistemic vices to vice epistemology 1 IAN JAMES KIDD, HEATHER BATTALY, AND QUASSIM CASSAM PART I Foundational issues 19 1 The structure of intellectual vices 21 JASON BAEHR 2 The metaphysical foundations of vice epistemology 37 QUASSIM CASSAM 3 Ignorance, arrogance, and privilege: vice epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance 53 ALESSANDRA TANESINI 4 Epistemic corruption and social oppression 69 IAN JAMES KIDD PART II Collectives, institutions, and networks 87 5 Institutional epistemic vices: the case of inferential inertia 89 MIRANDA FRICKER
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