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The Virtue of Open-Mindedness as a Virtue of Attention

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
Open-mindedness appears as a potential intellectual virtue from the beginning of the rise of the literature on intellectual virtues. It often takes up a special role, sometimes thought of as a meta-virtue rather than a first-order virtue: as an ...
Isabel Kaeslin
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A control rule for planning promotion in a Nigerian university setting

open access: yesCroatian Operational Research Review, 2016
This paper examines the attainability problem in a graded manpower system, where the objective is to maximise the total throughput. The problem is modelled as a linear programming problem (LPP) and the evolution of structures in the system is described ...
Virtue U. Ekhosuehi
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Loving Gaze and Accurate Knowledge

open access: yesFelsefe Arkivi, 2022
Frequently, philosophers use examples to make their ideas clearer to readers. Later, commentators take these examples and go beyond the philosophers’ original intentions.
Margarita Mauri
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Against The Bifurcation Of Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It has become customary in the virtue epistemological literature to distinguish between responsibilist and reliabilist virtue theories. More recently, certain problems affecting the former have prompted epistemologists to suggest that this distinction in
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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Using Fiction to Support Identity Development and Transition in Conditionally-Enrolled Students

open access: yesJournal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The transition to college can be difficult for many first-year students. Students who are conditionally enrolled may struggle more than their peers in terms of feeling comfortable in an academic setting.
Emily E Virtue
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Reply to critics: collective (telic) virtue epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Here I reply to criticisms by Jeroen de Ridder and S. Kate Devitt to my "Collective (Telic) Virtue Epistemology"
Carter, J. Adam, J. Adam Carter
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At the Heart of Virtue Growth: 'Self-of-virtue' and 'Virtue identity'

open access: yesEstudios sobre Educación, 2019
Within a realist Aristotelian paradigm, this paper explores the concepts of ‘self-of-virtue’ and ‘virtue identity’, its correspondent self-concept. Distinguishing the ‘fundamental disposition’ to virtue growth, which defi nes a self-of-virtue, from the ...
Manuel Joaquín Fernández González
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Eucharist, Synodality, and Ethics: Making Connections

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The central premise of this article is that synodality ought to be grounded in the Eucharist. The author explores the implications of this claim in the areas of ecclesiology and ethics. On the side of ecclesiology, the author argues that the Eucharist is
Xavier M. Montecel
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The Social Virtue Of Blind Deference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Recently, it has become popular to account for knowledge and other epistemic states in terms of epistemic virtues. The present paper focuses on an epistemic virtue relevant when deferring to others in testimonial contexts.
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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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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