The mismeasure of the self : a study in vice epistemology /

"The aim of this book is to offer detailed characterizations of some intellectual virtues and vices of self-evaluation, to highlight the epistemic harms and moral wrongs that flow from them, to explain their psychological bases and to suggest that some interventions that inhibit vicious behavio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanesini, Alessandra (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The measure and mismeasure of the self
  • Intellectual virtues and vices: sensibilities, thinking styles, and character traits
  • Attitude psychology and virtue epistemology: a new framework
  • Intellectual humility, proper pride, and proper concern with others' esteem
  • Superbia, arrogance, servility, and self-abasement
  • Vanity, narcissims, timidity, and fatalism
  • Harms and wrongs
  • Wrongs, responsibility, blame, and oppression
  • Teaching intellectual virtues, changing attitudes.