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The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue - Knowledge as a Team Achievement (Hardcover)
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The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue - Knowledge as a Team Achievement (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the
conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is
normally thought of as something that allows individuals to
accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is
increasingly making room for an inherently social dimension in
moral agency, intellectual virtues continue to be seen in terms of
the computing potential of a brain taken by itself. Thinking in
these terms, however, seriously misconstrues the way in which our
individual flourishing hinges on our collective flourishing.
Green's account of virtue epistemology is based on the extended
credit view, which conceives of knowledge as an achievement and
broadens that focus to include team achievements in addition to
individual ones. He argues that this view does a better job than
alternatives of answering the many conceptual and empirical
challenges for virtue epistemology that have been based on cases of
testimony. The view also allows for a nuanced interaction with
situationist psychology, dual processing models in cognitive
science, and the extended mind literature in philosophy of mind.
This framework provides a useful conceptual bridge between
individual and group epistemology, and it has novel applications to
the epistemology of disagreement, prejudice, and authority.
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