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Virtue and argument: Taking character into account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ...
Justine Kingsbury   +3 more
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Scholarly Conversations, Intellectual Virtues, and Virtue Information Literacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article develops a concept of Virtue Information Literacy (VIL) modeled on the philosophical subfields of virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. VIL is an ethical, character-based approach analyzing information literacy through intellectual virtues ...
Bivens-Tatum, Wayne
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A Critique on the Solution of Zakzewoski’s Virtue Responsibilism to the Gettier Problem

open access: yesReligion and Social Communication
Edmund Gettier demonstrated that the traditional analysis of knowledge (as a justified true belief) is insufficient. Some philosophers have proposed that virtue epistemology holds the key to solving the Gettier problem.
Liu Caiqin
doaj   +1 more source

Rationality as an intellectual virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
: Despite being one of the oldest topics in the history of western philosophy, the nature of rationality is still a substantial source of disagreement, especially when it comes to its normativity. Current theories of rationality are either not exhaustive
Scholtz, David Ian
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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2018
The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is ...
Leandro De Brasi
doaj   +1 more source

Education as The Social Cultivation of Intellectual Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The recent literature has seen a burgeoning discussion of the idea that the overarching epistemic goal of education is the cultivation of the intellectual virtues.
Croce, Michel, Pritchard, Duncan
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Intellectual Humility and Self-Censorship in Higher Education; a thematic analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionThis article explores whether social science lecturers and postgraduate students perceive their experiences of university as supporting intellectual humility – a concept representing a disposition to rigorously consider opposing ideas to ...
Hayden Godfrey, Hayden Godfrey
doaj   +1 more source

Which Way to SoTL Utopia?

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
Where is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) movement headed? This paper offers a vision for the future by using an Aristotelian model of virtue to sketch an account of intellectual habits. We argue that these habits allow students, teachers,
John Draeger, Linda Price
doaj   +1 more source

Castration‐resistant prostate cancer cells are addicted to the high activity of cyclin‐dependent kinase 2

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We show that emergence of castration‐resistant prostate (CRPC) is associated with significant upregulation of cyclins that positively regulate cyclin‐dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and concomitant downregulation of CDK4 cyclins. This renders CRPC cells dependent on the high activity of CDK2, and CDK2 inhibitors synergistically sensitize CRPC cells to both ...
Joyeeta Chatterjee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Transculturality of Virtue in the Early Modern Mediterranean: A Case Study in Florentine-Ottoman Relations

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
This article approaches the transculturality of virtue ethics in early modern Mediterranean intellectual culture by focusing on the case study of Florentine-Ottoman relations during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II.
Luc Wodzicki
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