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Intellectual Humility and the Curse of Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter explores an unappreciated psychological dimension of intellectual humility. In particular, I argue there is a plausible connection between intellectual humility and epistemic egocentrism. Epistemic egocentrism is a well-known cognitive bias –
Hannon, Michael
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Humility in Personality and Positive Psychology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A case could be made that the practice of philosophy demands a certain humility, or at least intellectual humility, requiring such traits as inquisitiveness, openness to new ideas, and a shared interest in pursuing truth.
Church, Ian M., Samuelson, Peter
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2010
The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
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Intellectual Humility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We critique two popular philosophical definitions of intellectual humility: the “low concern for status” and the “limitations-owning.” accounts. Based upon our analysis, we offer an alternative working definition of intellectual humility: the virtue of ...
Barrett, Justin, Church, Ian M.
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Are Intellectual Virtues Truth-Relevant? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to attributor virtue epistemology (the view defended by Ernest Sosa, John Greco, and others), S knows that p only if her true belief that p is attributable to some intellectual virtue, competence, or ability that she possesses.
Roeber, Blake
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Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character and Valuing Truth

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
This paper explores the thesis that the overarching goal of education is to cultivate virtuous intellectual character. It is shown how finally valuing the truth is central to this theory on account of how such valuing is pivotal to intellectual virtues ...
Duncan Pritchard
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The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This is a book review of Jason Baehr's 'The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology' (OUP)
Carter, J. Adam
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The Doxastic Account of Intellectual Humility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper will be broken down into four sections. In §1, I try to assuage a worry that intellectual humility is not really an intellectual virtue. In §2, we will consider the two dominant accounts of intellectual humility in the philosophical literature—
Church, Ian M.
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Intellectual Hospitality as a Guiding Virtue In Campus Conversations on Abortion

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2023
This essay argues that intellectual hospitality can serve as a guiding virtue to help community members at Catholic colleges and universities engage across difference on the issue of abortion.
Megan Halteman Zwart
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A virtue epistemology of the Internet: Search engines, intellectual virtues and education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper applies a virtue epistemology approach to using the Internet, as to improve our information-seeking behaviours. Virtue epistemology focusses on the cognitive character of agents and is less concerned with the nature of truth and epistemic ...
Heersmink, Richard
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