Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtue. Editors Michael Slote, Chienkuo Mi, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world's leading epistemologists and ethicists-located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-to explore in a global context what they are calling, "the virtue turn.

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Chienkuo Mi is Chair and Professor of philosophy at Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, and President of Taiwan Philosophical Association. He has published widely in Chinese and English on topics in epistemology, philosophy of language, and Chinese philosophy. His recent research brings together issues in virtue epistemology and Chinese philosophy.

Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. He is the author of books and articles in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. His recently published works include The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics (with Lorraine Besser-Jones, Routledge 2015), A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind (2014), and Virtue Ethics and Confucianism (with Stephen Angle, Routledge 2013). He is now working on issues that bridge the gap between Western and Chinese philosophy.

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the Editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and of Noûs. His recently published books include Judgment and Agency (2015) and Knowing Full Well (2011).

Inhalt

1. Knowledge as Action Ernest Sosa. 2. From Virtue Ethics to Virtue Epistemology Michael Slote. 3. Skilful Reflection as an Epistemic Virtue Chienkuo Mi and Shane Ryan. 4. Intellectual Humility, Knowledge-how, and Disagreement Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard. 5. Self-Knowledge as an Intellectual and Moral Virtue? Stephen Hetherington. 6. The Vice of Virtue Theory David Sosa. 7. The Four Dimensions of an Intellectual Virtue Jason Baehr. 8. Epistemic Virtue and Vice: Reliabilism, Responsibilism, and Personalism Heather Battaly. 9. Testimony as Speech Act, Testimony as Source Peter Graham. 10. Curiosity - The Basic Epistemic Virtue Nenad Miscevic. 11. Perceptual Justification: Factive Reasons and Fallible Virtues Christoph Kelp and Harmen Ghijsen. 12. Can Extended Cognition Help Robust Virtue Epistemology? Leo Cheung. 13. Confucian Worries about the Aristotelian Sophos Matthew Walker. 14. "Empathy for Devils": What We Can Learn from Wang Yangming Yong Huang. 15. The Virtue of Receptivity and Practical Rationality. Seisuke Hayakawa.