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On Humility [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2010
The new professionalism movement in medical education takes seriously the old medical virtues. Perhaps the most difficult virtue to understand and practice is humility, which seems out of place in a medical culture characterized by arrogance, assertiveness, and a sense of entitlement.
Coulehan, Jack
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Distinguishing intellectual humility and general humility

The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2015
Two studies provide evidence for distinguishing intellectual humility (IH) from general humility (GH). Humility involves (a) an Accurate View of Self and (b) the ability to regulate egotism and cultivate an other-oriented stance; IH is a subdomain of humility that involves (a) having an accurate view of one’s intellectual strengths and limitations and (
Don E. Davis   +6 more
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Bayesian Humility

Philosophy of Science, 2016
Say that an agent is epistemically humble if she is less than fully confident that her opinions will converge to the truth, given appropriate evidence. Is such humility rationally permissible? According to Gordon Belot’s orgulity argument: the answer is yes, but long-run convergence-to-the-truth theorems force Bayesians to answer no.
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Humility in medicine

Clinics in Dermatology, 2013
Becoming a physician comes with privilege and exciting opportunities. The rigor of academic medicine can be challenging. The ability to have humility as a physician is not only a sign of a good doctor, but it can be one of the most challenging attributes to maintain. My surgeon, Dr. Steven Kopits, embodied what it means to be a humble, yet accomplished
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HUMILITY:

Abstract Humility: A History is a collection of fourteen original chapters and four reflections examining the place of humility in the history of philosophy from Plato to the present. Among the questions explored in this volume are the following: Is humility a virtue? If so, is it a moral virtue, an epistemic virtue, or both? How does
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