UID:
almahu_9949386130202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781315146058
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1315146053
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1351380869
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9781351380874
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1351380877
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9781351380850
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1351380850
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9781351380867
Content:
"Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge and what is their role in sustaining patterns of ignorance? What is their relation to implicit or unconscious bias? How do epistemic vices and systems of social oppression relate to one another? Do we unwittingly absorb such traits from the process of socialization and communities around us? Are epistemic vices traits for which we can blamed? Can there be institutional and collective epistemic vices? This book seeks to answer these important questions about the vices of the mind and their roles in our social and epistemic lives, and is the first collection of its kind. Organized into three parts, chapters by outstanding scholars explore the nature of epistemic vices, specific examples of these vices, and case studies in applied vice epistemology, including education and politics. Alongside these foundational questions, the volume offers sophisticated accounts of vices both new and familiar. These include epistemic arrogance and servility, epistemic injustice, epistemic snobbishness, conspiratorial thinking, procrastination, and forms of closed-mindedness. Vice Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law and education"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From epistemic vices to vice epistemology -- The historical study of epistemic vices: a brief tour -- The contemporary development of vice epistemology: a brief tour -- Key themes in contemporary vice epistemology -- Summary of chapters -- Open questions -- Notes -- References -- Part I Foundational issues -- Chapter 1 The structure of intellectual vices -- 1.1 The structure of intellectual virtues
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1.2 The structure of intellectual vices -- 1.3 Motivationalism -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The metaphysical foundations of vice epistemology -- 2.1 -- 2.2 -- 2.3 -- 2.4 -- 2.5 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Ignorance, arrogance, and privilege: Vice epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance -- 3.1 Varieties of ignorance -- 3.2 Ignorance as a vicious sensibility -- 3.3 Ignorance and arrogance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Epistemic corruption and social oppression -- 4.1 Character and oppression -- 4.2 The concept of epistemic corruption
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4.3 Presuppositions and predicaments -- 4.4 Epistemically corrupting conditions -- 4.5 Critical character epistemology -- 4.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II Collectives, institutions, and networks -- Chapter 5 Institutional epistemic vices: The case of inferential inertia -- 5.1 Ethos matters -- 5.2 Modelling ethos -- 5.3 Modelling institutional epistemic vice -- 5.4 The institutional vice of inferential inertia -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Capital vices, institutional failures, and epistemic neglect in a county jail -- 6.1 Introduction
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6.2 Falling into the abyss of epistemic corruption (I): corrupted testimonial sensibility -- 6.3 Falling into the abyss of epistemic corruption (II): epistemically corrupted institutions -- 6.4 Fighting capital epistemic vices: resisting and preventing deep epistemic corruption -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Implicit bias and epistemic vice -- 7.1 What are implicit biases? -- 7.2 The prima facie case for implicit biases as intellectual vices -- 7.3 The challenges -- 7.4 The bias of crowds -- 7.5 Collective vice -- 7.6 Vice charging, individual and collective -- Notes -- References
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Chapter 8 Vectors of epistemic insecurity -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Toward vector-relativized modal epistemic standings -- 8.3 Epistemic security -- 8.4 Virtue and vice in social epistemic networks -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Analyses of specific vices -- Chapter 9 Quitting, procrastinating, and slacking off -- 9.1 Intellectual perseverance -- 9.2 Quitting -- 9.3 Procrastinating -- 9.4 Slacking off -- 9.5 Some related traits -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Epistemic insensitivity: An insidious and consequential vice -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Two types of virtue
Additional Edition:
Print version: Vice epistemology Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9781138504431
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315146058
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315146058
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