TY - BOOK ID - 85644106 TI - The skillfulness of virtue : improving our moral and epistemic lives PY - 2018 SN - 1108691978 1108583547 1108472370 1108660398 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Self-control. KW - Control (Psychology) KW - Virtue. KW - Conduct of life. KW - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. KW - Ethics, Practical KW - Morals KW - Personal conduct KW - Ethics KW - Philosophical counseling KW - Conduct of life KW - Human acts KW - Power (Psychology) KW - Emotions KW - Psychology KW - Senses and sensation KW - Self-discipline KW - Self-mastery KW - Discipline UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644106 AB - The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation and skill acquisition, which he then uses as grounds to discuss virtue development as a process of skill acquisition. This account of virtue as skill has important implications for debates about virtue in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Furthermore, it engages seriously with criticisms of virtue theory that arise in moral psychology, as psychological experiments reveal that there are many obstacles to acting and thinking well, even for those with the best of intentions. Stichter draws on self-regulation strategies and examples of deliberate practice in skill acquisition to show how we can overcome some of these obstacles, and become more skillful in our moral and epistemic virtues. ER -