TY - BOOK ID - 85645934 TI - Naturalizing epistemic virtue PY - 2014 SN - 1139698923 1139861948 1139860852 1139236342 1139870866 1139865137 1139868713 1139863010 1107028574 1316642836 9781316642832 9781139865135 9781139863018 9781139870863 9781139236348 9781107028579 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Virtue epistemology. KW - Naturalism. KW - Materialism KW - Mechanism (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Positivism KW - Science KW - Epistemic virtue KW - Epistemology, Virtue KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Virtue epistemology KW - Naturalism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645934 AB - An epistemic virtue is a personal quality conducive to the discovery of truth, the avoidance of error, or some other intellectually valuable goal. Current work in epistemology is increasingly value-driven, but this volume presents the first collection of essays to explore whether virtue epistemology can also be naturalistic, in the philosophical definition meaning 'methodologically continuous with science'. The essays examine the empirical research in psychology on cognitive abilities and personal dispositions, meta-epistemic semantic accounts of virtue theoretic norms, the role of emotion in knowledge, 'ought-implies can' constraints, empirically and metaphysically grounded accounts of 'proper functioning', and even applied virtue epistemology in relation to education. Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue addresses many core issues in contemporary epistemology, presents new opportunities for work on epistemic abilities, epistemic virtues and cognitive character, and will be of great interest to those studying virtue ethics and epistemology. ER -