Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic | ISBN 9781444391381

Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic

herausgegeben von Heather Battaly
Buchcover Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic  | EAN 9781444391381 | ISBN 1-4443-9138-0 | ISBN 978-1-4443-9138-1
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„Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.“ (Choice, 1 May 2011)

Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic

herausgegeben von Heather Battaly
Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series ofessays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer thelatest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtueand emotion.
* Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring adual focus on ethics and epistemology
* Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectualvirtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and theconnections between virtue and emotion
* Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars thefoundation of ethics; and new theories of epistemic vices such asepistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence
* Represents one of the few collections to address both the moralvirtues and the epistemic virtues
* Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology -which emphasizes the importance of intellectual charactertraits