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Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

Author : Mark Alfano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317541626
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Virtue Theory written by Mark Alfano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.

Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

Author : Mark Alfano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317541618
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Virtue Theory written by Mark Alfano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.

Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy

Author : Michel Croce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119525748
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy by : Michel Croce

Download or read book Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy written by Michel Croce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy. Includes groundbreaking chapters offering cutting-edge research on the topic of the virtues Provides insights into the application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues, virtuous dispositions, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy Examines the relevance of the virtues in the current debates in social epistemology, the epistemology of education, and civic education Features work from world-leading and internationally recognized philosophers working on the virtues today

Virtues in Action

Author : M. Austin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137280298
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Virtues in Action written by M. Austin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues, and in so doing offer a fresh and illuminating perspective. Some of the essays focus on a particular virtue and its application to one or more realms of applied ethics, such as temperance and sex or humility and environmental ethics. Other chapters focus on an issue in applied ethics and bring several virtues into a discussion of that issue or realm of life, such as sport, education, and business. Finally, several of the chapters engage relevant psychological research as well as current neuroscience, which enhances the strength of the philosophical arguments.

Character as Moral Fiction

Author : Mark Alfano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139620096
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Character as Moral Fiction written by Mark Alfano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop. Although psychology suggests that most people do not have robust character traits such as courage, honesty and open-mindedness, Alfano argues that we have reason to attribute these virtues to people because such attributions function as self-fulfilling prophecies - children become more studious if they are told that they are hard-working and adults become more generous if they are told that they are generous. He argues that we should think of virtue and character as social constructs: there is no such thing as virtue without social reinforcement. His original and provocative book will interest a wide range of readers in contemporary ethics, epistemology, moral psychology and empirically informed philosophy.

Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media

Author : Nancy E. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000406113
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media written by Nancy E. Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens’ commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in this volume investigate the importance of helping citizens improve the quality of their online agency and raise awareness of the risks social media poses to democratic values. This book moves from two initial chapters that provide historical background and overview of the present post-truth malaise, through a series of chapters that feature mainly diagnostic accounts of the epistemic and ethical issues we face, to the complexities of virtue-theoretic analyses of specific virtues and vices. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and media studies.

Current Controversies in Political Philosophy

Author : Thom Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113634151X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Political Philosophy written by Thom Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Controversies in Political Philosophy brings together an international team of leading philosophers to explore and debate four key and dynamic issues in the field in an accessible way. Should we all be cosmopolitans? – Gillian Brock and Cara Nine Are rights important? – Rowan Cruft and Sonu Bedi Is sexual objectification wrong and, if so, why? – Lina Papadaki and Scott Anderson What to do about climate change? – Alexa Zellentin and Thom Brooks These questions are the focus of intense debate. Preliminary chapter descriptions, bibliographies following each chapter, and annotated guides to supplemental readings help provide clearer and richer snapshots of active controversy for all readers.

Character and Environment

Author : Ronald L. Sandler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231141076
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Character and Environment written by Ronald L. Sandler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Character and Environment, Ronald L. Sandler brings together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics. He demonstrates the many ways that any ethic of character can and should be informed by environmental considerations. He also develops a pluralistic, virtue-oriented environmental ethic that accommodates the richness and complexity of our relationship with the natural environment and provides effective and nuanced guidance on environmental issues.

Current Controversies in Metaphysics

Author : Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135007705
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Metaphysics written by Elizabeth Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are: Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties? / (1) Meghan Sullivan (2) Kris McDaniel and Steve Steward Are there any worldly states of affairs? / (1) Daniel Nolan (2) Joseph Melia Are there any intermediate states of affairs? / (1) Jessica Wilson (2) Elizabeth Barnes and Ross Cameron Do ordinary objects exist? / (1) Trenton Merricks (2) Helen Beebee Editor Elizabeth Barnes guides readers through these controversies (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction and succinct abstracts of each debate.

Virtue, Rules, and Justice

Author : Thomas E. Hill Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199692009
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Virtue, Rules, and Justice written by Thomas E. Hill Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. He introduces the major themes of Kantian ethics and explores its practical application to questions about revolution, prison reform, and forcible interventions in other countries for humanitarian purposes.

From Morality to Mental Health

Author : Mike W. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304713
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book From Morality to Mental Health written by Mike W. Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality and mental health are now inseparably linked in our view of character. Alcoholics are sick, yet they are punished for drunk driving. Drug addicts are criminals, but their punishment can be court ordered therapy. The line between character flaws and personality disorders has become fuzzy, with even the seven deadly sins seen as mental disorders. In addition to pathologizing wrong-doing, we also psychologize virtue; self-respect becomes self-esteem, integrity becomes psychological integration, and responsibility becomes maturity. Moral advice is now sought primarily from psychologists and therapists rather than philosophers or theologians.In this wide-ranging, accessible book, Mike W. Martin asks: are we replacing morality with therapy, in potentially confused and dangerous ways, or are we creatively integrating morality and mental health? According to him, it's a little bit of both. He surveys the ways in which morality and mental health are related, touching on practical concerns like love and work, self-respect and self-fulfillment, guilt and depression, crime and violence, and addictions. Terming this integrative development "the therapeutic trend in ethics," Martin uses examples from popular culture, various moral controversies, and draws on a line of thought that includes Plato, the Stoics, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary psychotherapeutic theories. Martin develops some interesting conclusions, among them that sound morality is indeed healthy, and that moral values are inevitably embedded in our conceptions of mental health. In the end, he shows how both morality and mental health are inextricably intertwined in our pursuit of a meaningful life. This book will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, as well as the general reader.

Virtues and Their Vices

Author : Kevin Timpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753667
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Virtues and Their Vices written by Kevin Timpe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or "seven deadly sins") and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, without paying undue attention to the historical and theological issues. Virtues and Their Vices engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. It is a unique and compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines.

The Skillfulness of Virtue

Author : Matt Stichter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108660398
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Skillfulness of Virtue written by Matt Stichter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation and skill acquisition, which he then uses as grounds to discuss virtue development as a process of skill acquisition. This account of virtue as skill has important implications for debates about virtue in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Furthermore, it engages seriously with criticisms of virtue theory that arise in moral psychology, as psychological experiments reveal that there are many obstacles to acting and thinking well, even for those with the best of intentions. Stichter draws on self-regulation strategies and examples of deliberate practice in skill acquisition to show how we can overcome some of these obstacles, and become more skillful in our moral and epistemic virtues.

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science

Author : Shamik Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497147
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science written by Shamik Dasgupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science asks twelve philosophers to debate six questions that are driving contemporary work in this area of philosophy. The questions are: I. Are Boltzmann Brains Bad? II. Does Mathematical Explanation Require Mathematical Truth? III. Does Quantum Mechanics Suggest Spacetime is Nonfundamental? IV. Is Evolution Fundamental When It Comes to Defining Biological Ontology? V. Is Chance Ontologically Fundamental? VI. Are Sexes Natural Kinds? These debates explore the philosophical foundations of particular scientific disciplines, while also examining more general issues in the philosophy of science. The result is a book that’s perfect for the advanced philosophy student, building up their knowledge of the foundations of the field and engaging with its cutting-edge questions. Preliminary descriptions of each chapter, annotated lists of further readings for each controversy, and study questions for each chapter help provide clearer and richer snapshots of active controversies for all readers.

Understanding Virtue

Author : Jennifer Cole Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190655135
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Virtue written by Jennifer Cole Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have seen a resurgence of interest in virtue among philosophers, psychologists, and educators. This co-authored book brings an interdisciplinary response to the study of virtue: it not only provides a framework for quantifying virtues, but also explores how we can understand virtue in a philosophically-informed way that is compatible with the best current thinking in personality psychology. The volume presents a major contribution to theemerging science of virtue and character measurement.

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception

Author : Bence Nanay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317556739
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception written by Bence Nanay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the hottest and most influential contemporary debates in philosophy of perception, written especially for this volume by many of the most important philosophers of the field. The book addresses the following key questions: Can perception be unconscious? What is the relation between perception and attention? What properties can we perceive? Are perceptual states representations? How is vision different from the other sense modalities (like hearing or smell)? How do these sense modalities interact with one another? Contributors are Ned Block, Berit Brogaard, Alex Byrne, Robert Kentridge, John Kulvicki, Heather Logue, Mohan Matthen, Bence Nanay, Matt Nudds, Casey O’Callaghan, Adam Pautz, Ian Phillips, Susanna Siegel and Wayne Wu.

Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory

Author : James Dreier
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405101784
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory written by James Dreier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on the most controversial issues in moral theory Questions include: Are moral requirements derived from reason? How demanding is morality? Are virtues the proper starting point for moral theorizing? Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary moral theory, while also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers.