The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue: Knowledge as a Team Achievement

by Adam Green

Book Overview

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is increasingly making room for an inherently social dimension in moral agency, intellectual virtues continue to be seen in terms of the computing potential of a brain taken by itself. Thinking in these terms,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367258358
• ISBN13: 9780367258351
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"