From the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood develop an approach they call 'regulative epistemology', exploring the connection between knowledge and intellectual virtue. In the course of their argument they analyse particular virtues of intellectual life - such as courage, generosity, and humility - in detail.

Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of intellectual virtues. He examines the relationship ofepistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in cognition.

Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call -regulative epistemology.- This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before.
Standing on the shoulders of recent epistemologists--including William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, and Linda Zagzebski--Roberts and Wood pursue epistemological...

Questions of God's existence have exercised philosophers since antiquity. Are there adequate reasons to think that God exists? And, if God exists, what is God like? In this book Jay Wood provides a sustained and fresh examination of these central questions.