02206nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139236348 UkCbUP 20171019123617.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120126s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139236348 (ebook) 9781107028579 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda BD176 .N38 2014 121 23 Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue / Edited by Abrol Fairweather, Owen Flanagan. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). An epistemic virtue is a personal quality conducive to the discovery of truth, the avoidance of error, or some other intellectually valuable goal. Current work in epistemology is increasingly value-driven, but this volume presents the first collection of essays to explore whether virtue epistemology can also be naturalistic, in the philosophical definition meaning 'methodologically continuous with science'. The essays examine the empirical research in psychology on cognitive abilities and personal dispositions, meta-epistemic semantic accounts of virtue theoretic norms, the role of emotion in knowledge, 'ought-implies can' constraints, empirically and metaphysically grounded accounts of 'proper functioning', and even applied virtue epistemology in relation to education. Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue addresses many core issues in contemporary epistemology, presents new opportunities for work on epistemic abilities, epistemic virtues and cognitive character, and will be of great interest to those studying virtue ethics and epistemology. Virtue epistemology Naturalism Fairweather, Abrol, editor of compilation. Flanagan, Owen, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107028579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236348 225962 225962