Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

The Turn toward Virtue

Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa, Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138925168
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317407652
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, 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." The 15 chapters have never been published previously and by covering topics that bridge epistemology and moral philosophy suggest a widespread philosophical turn away from Kantian and Utilitarian issues and towards character- and agent-based concerns. A goal of this volume is to show students and researchers alike that the (re-)turn toward virtue underway in the Western tradition is being followed by a similar (re-)turn toward virtue in Chinese philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Knowledge as Action
• 2 From Virtue Ethics to Virtue Epistemology
• 3 Skilful Reflection as an Epistemic Virtue
• 4 Intellectual Humility, Knowledge-How, and Disagreement
• 5 Self-Knowledge as an Intellectual and Moral Virtue?
• 6 The Vice of Virtue Theory
• 7 The Four Dimensions of an Intellectual Virtue
• 8 Epistemic Virtue and Vice: Reliabilism, Responsibilism, and Personalism
• 9 Testimony as Speech Act, Testimony as Source
• 10 Curiosity – The Basic Epistemic Virtue
• 11 Perceptual Justification: Factive Reasons and Fallible Virtues
• 12 Can Extended Cognition Help Robust Virtue Epistemology?
• 13 Confucian Worries about the Aristotelian Sophos
• 14 “Empathy with Devils”: What We Can Learn from Wang Yangming
• 15 The Virtue of Receptivity and Practical Rationality
• Index