Intellectual Virtue

The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics and has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs and how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue. This text brings work from both fields together to address various issues.

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Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its inspiration from virtue ethics, this is the first book that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together to contribute their particular expertise, and the first that is devoted to the topic of intellectual virtue.
All new and right up to date, the papers collected here by Zagzebski and DePaul demonstrate the benefit of each branch of philosophy to the other. Intellectual Virtue will be required reading for anyone working in either field.