Vice Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781138504431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str.

Ian James Kidd; Quassim Cassam; Heather Battaly

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: from epistemic vices to vice epistemology Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly, and Quassim Cassam  Part 1: Foundational Issues  1. The structure of intellectual vices Jason Baehr  2. The metaphysical foundations of vice epistemology Quassim Cassam  3. Ignorance, arrogance, and privilege: vice epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance Alessandra Tanesini  4. Epistemic corruption and social oppression Ian James Kidd  Part 2: Collectives, institutions, and networks  5. Institutional epistemic vices: the case of inferential inertia Miranda Fricker  6. Capital vices, institutional failures, and epistemic neglect in a county jail José Medina  7. Implicit bias and epistemic vice Jules Holroyd  8. Vectors of epistemic insecurity Emily Sullivan and Mark Alfano  Part 3: Analyses of specific vices  9. Quitting, procrastinating, and slacking off Heather Battaly  10. Epistemic insensitivity: an insidious and consequential vice Maura Priest  11. Intellectual snobs Charlie Crerar  Part 4: Applied vice epistemology  12. Teaching to the test: how schools discourse phronesis Casey Johnson  13. Vices of questioning in public discourse Lani Watson.  Index