The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here,
Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology
β Scribed by Ben Kotzee
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 193
- Series
- Journal of Philosophy of Education
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection of original contributions from a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advances in contemporary epistemology for education.Β
- New papers on education and social and virtue epistemology contributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers of educationΒ
- Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from social and virtue epistemology
- Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in the light of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turn re-invigorate the links between epistemology and educationΒ
Content:
Chapter 1 Epistemic Dependence in Testimonial Belief, in the Classroom and Beyond (pages 14β35): Sanford Goldberg
Chapter 2 Learning from Others (pages 54β19): David Bakhurst
Chapter 3 Anscombe's βTeachersβ (pages 75β21): Jeremy Wanderer
Chapter 4 Can Inferentialism Contribute to Social Epistemology? (pages 76β91): Jan Derry
Chapter 5 Epistemic Virtue and the Epistemology of Education (pages 92β105): Duncan Pritchard
Chapter 6 Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice (pages 106β123): Jason Baehr
Chapter 7 Detecting Epistemic Vice in Higher Education Policy: Epistemic Insensibility in the Seven Solutions and the REF (pages 124β144): Heather Battaly
Chapter 8 Three Different Conceptions of KnowβHow and Their Relevance to Professional and Vocational Education (pages 145β165): Christopher Winch
Chapter 9 The Epistemic Value of Diversity (pages 166β178): Emily Robertson
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