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Author:   Abrol Fairweather
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Volume:   366
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.742kg
ISBN:  

9783319046716

ISBN 10:   3319046713
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   16 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Virtue epistemology meets philosophy of science; Abrol Fairweather.- Part I. Epistemic Virtue, Cognitive Science & Situationism.- Chapter 2. The Function of Perception; Peter Graham.- Chapter 3.Metacognition and Intellectual Virtue; Chris Lepock.- Chapter 4. Daring to Believe: Epistemic Agency and Reflective Knowledge in Virtue Epistemology; Fernando Broncano.- Chapter 5. Success, Minimal Agency and Epistemic Virtue; Carlos Montemayor.- Chapter 6. Toward a Eudaimonistic Virtue Epistemology; Berit Brogaard.- Chapter 7. The Situationist Challenge to Reliabilism About Inference; Mark Alfano.- Chapter 8. Inferential Virtues and Common Epistemic Goods; Abrol Fairweather & Carlos Montemayor.- Part II. Epistemic Virtue and Formal Epistemology.- Chapter 9. Curiosity, Belief and Acquaintance; Ilhan Inan.- Chapter 10. Epistemic Values and Disinformation; Don Fallis.- Chapter 11. Defeasibility without inductivism; Juan Comasana.- Part III. Virtues of Theories and Virtues of Theorists.- Chapter 12. Acting to know; Adam Morton.- Chapter 13. Is there a place for epistemic virtues in theory choice; Milena Ivanova.- Chapter 14. “Bridging A Fault Line: On under determination and the ampliative adequacy of competing theories”; Guy Axtell.- Chapter 15. Epistemic virtues and the success of science; Dana Tulodziecki.- Chapter 16. Experimental Virtue: Perceptual Responsiveness and the Praxis of Scientific Observation; Shannon Vallor.- Chapter 17. A Matter of Phronesis: Experiment and Virtue in Physics, a Case Study; Marilena diBuchianno.- Part IV. Understanding, Explanation and Epistemic Virtue.- Chapter 18. Knowledge and Understanding; Duncan Pritchard.- Chapter 19. Understanding As Knowledge of Causes; Stephen Grimm.- Chapter 20. Knowledge, Understanding and Virtue; Christoph Kelp.

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From the book reviews: This is a collection of nineteen papers, assembled and briefly introduced by Abrol Fairweather. Together they explore an incredibly broad and fertile range of the connections between virtue epistemology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science. ... Anyone interested in virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, or naturalized epistemology should consider this book an excellent resource. (Sarah Wright, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015)

From the book reviews: This is a collection of nineteen papers, assembled and briefly introduced by Abrol Fairweather. Together they explore an incredibly broad and fertile range of the connections between virtue epistemology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science. Anyone interested in virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, or naturalized epistemology should consider this book an excellent resource. (Sarah Wright, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015)

From the book reviews: This is a collection of nineteen papers, assembled and briefly introduced by Abrol Fairweather. Together they explore an incredibly broad and fertile range of the connections between virtue epistemology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science. ... Anyone interested in virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, or naturalized epistemology should consider this book an excellent resource. (Sarah Wright, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015)

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