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

Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast–growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy. It includes groundbreaking chapters offering original solutions to long–standing issues, such as the plausibility of different lists of virtues, the relationship between virtues and the vices that oppose them, and the connection between moral and intellectual virtues. In addition, the volume offers insights into cutting–edge areas of application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues in an age of neuromedia, virtuous dispositions related to social epistemology, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy.

The book breaks down barriers between different philosophical perspectives on the study of the virtues both to highlight the interplay and overlap among virtues pertaining to different philosophical areas, and to stress the peculiarity of specific virtues within their own fields. It is a unique and insightful collection of essays composed by some of the leading philosophers working on the topic.

Notes on Contributors

Connecting Virtues: Introduction (Michel Croce Maria Silvia Vaccarezza)

Part 1. Moral Philosophy

1. Utrum Sit Una Tantum Vera Enumeratio Virtutum Moralium (Sophie Grace Chappell)

2. Generosity: A Preliminary Account of a Surprisingly Neglected Virtue (Christian B. Miller)

3. An Eye on Particulars with the End in Sight: An Account of Aristotelian Phronesis (Maria Silvia Vaccarezza)

4. Honesty as a Virtue (Alan T. Wilson)

Part 2. Epistemology

5. Virtue Epistemology, Enhancement, and Control (J. Adam Carter)

6. Epistemic Paternalism and the Service Conception of Epistemic Authority (Michel Croce)

7. Neuromedia and the Epistemology of Education (Duncan Pritchard)

8. Epistemic Vice and Motivation (Alessandra Tanesini)

Part 3. Political Philosophy

9. Senses of Humor as Political Virtues (Phillip Deen)

10. Citizens′ Political Prudence as a Democratic Virtue (Valeria Ottonelli)

11. Hope as a Democratic Civic Virtue (Nancy E. Snow)

Index

Michel Croce, Ph.D., is Early Stage Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in epistemology, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of education.

Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Genoa and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on several topics, including ethical naturalism, the unity of the virtues debate, moral exemplarism, and exemplarist approaches to moral education.