Abstract Epistemic virtues are character traits conducive to principled ways of thinking, leading a life flourishing. Recent years have witnessed an emergence theoretical accounts describing how they develop. However, few if any studies conducted rigorous empirical investigation into the mechanisms intellectual virtue development. In this study, we review several significant frameworks before u...

After centuries of obscurity, the study of the virtues is now one of the most prominent methodologies in ethics. Proponents of this so-called ‘aretaic turn’ differ substantially in the details of their respective proposals, but they tend to see a renewed focus on ethical virtues as a fresh source of insight into problems which have deadlocked more familiar approaches, such as Kantianism or util...

Abstract In their “Educating for Intellectual Virtue: A Critique from Action Guidance” Kotzee, Carter and Siegel (2019) argue against what they call the intellectual virtues (IV) approach to primary epistemic aim of education in favor critical thinking (CT) approach. The IV says that educating virtue is education. CT it thinking. They exemplarist/role-modeling pedagogy not sufficiently action-g...

My concern in this article is with two perennial questions in the philosophy of education and educational theory: What are the proper aims or goals of education? What are the most fitting ways of achieving these goals? The answers I defend draw heavily from recent research within virtue epistemology on intellectual character virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual c...

Abstract The overlap between virtue epistemology and the philosophy of education has been dominated by discussions epistemic qualities good learners, that is, intellectual virtues must be nurtured in students. Not much said about teachers expressed virtue-theoretic terms. This paper offers a preliminary account such qualities, which are designated as pedagogical virtues. I use Battaly's plurali...

Abstract Being understanding is a moral virtue. But what exactly it that an person does excellently? And makes virtue, rather than (merely) intellectual one? Stephen Grimm suggests judges other people’s failings accurately without being too permissive or judgemental. I argue against this view and develop alternative one. First demonstrate judging failures neither necessary nor sufficient for le...

In this paper, I focus on the role of curiosity as a key motivating factor in successful collaboration for interdisciplinary research. argue that is an important, perhaps essential component teams. begin by defining and highlighting significance characteristic motivation virtue collaboration. initiates, maintains, coordinates collaborative Moreover, if foundational intellectual virtue, then it ...