Sympathy Open Mind And Virtue In Argument

Author : Jonathan Caravello Anthony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1835710506

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Sympathy, Open Mind and Virtue in Argument by Jonathan Caravello Anthony Pdf

Disagreements continue over the most basic epistemic questions. Which logic is correct? What makes an argument good? We need a theory that can both explain the prevalence of such disagreements and evaluate the conduct and characters of those who participate in them. I argue that formal theories cannot supply this need. Circular arguments demonstrate the failure of formal approaches. Circular arguments are often impeccable from a formal perspective, but circular argumentation is almost always criticizable. A skilled arguer does not dismiss other viewpoints out of hand. Instead, to reason with those who reject our most basic assumptions about the logic of argumentation itself or the norms we assume when evaluating arguments for cogency or coherence we must break out of the circle of our own opinions. We must exercise a capacity for cognitive empathy

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199371754

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A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind by Michael Slote Pdf

Slote argues that emotion is, on conceptual grounds, involved in all human thought and action, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind. Hume did not advocate this kind of general sentimentalism about the mind, and the book's main arguments and conclusions are only very partially anticipated in German Romanticism and in the Chinese philosophical tendency to avoid rigid distinctions between thought and emotion.

Author : Jeremy Fantl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192535337

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The Limitations of the Open Mind by Jeremy Fantl Pdf

When should you engage with difficult arguments against your cherished controversial beliefs? The primary conclusion of this book is that your obligations to engage with counterarguments are more limited than is often thought. In some standard situations, you shouldn't engage with difficult counterarguments and, if you do, you shouldn't engage with them open-mindedly. This conclusion runs counter to aspects of the Millian political tradition and political liberalism, as well as what people working in informal logic tend to say about argumentation. Not all misleading arguments wear their flaws on their sleeve. Each step of a misleading argument might seem compelling and you might not be able to figure out what's wrong with it. Still, even if you can't figure out what's wrong with an argument, you can know that it's misleading. One way to know that an argument is misleading is, counterintuitively, to lack expertise in the methods and evidence-types employed by the argument. When you know that a counterargument is misleading, you shouldn't engage with it open-mindedly and sometimes shouldn't engage with it at all. You shouldn't engage open-mindedly because you shouldn't be willing to reduce your confidence in response to arguments you know are misleading. And you sometimes shouldn't engage closed-mindedly, because to do so can be manipulative or ineffective. In making this case, Jeremy Fantl discusses echo chambers and group polarization, the importance in academic writing of a sympathetic case for the opposition, the epistemology of disagreement, the account of open-mindedness, and invitations to problematic academic speakers.

Author : Jason Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317500056

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Intellectual Virtues and Education by Jason Baehr Pdf

With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue epistemology, like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity, can help educators and students define and attain certain worthy but nebulous educational goals like a love of learning, lifelong learning, and critical thinking. This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. It assembles leading virtue epistemologists and philosophers of education to address such questions as: Which virtues are most essential to education? How exactly should these virtues be understood? How is the goal of intellectual character growth related to other educational goals, for example, to critical thinking and knowledge-acquisition? What are the "best practices" for achieving this goal? Can growth in intellectual virtues be measured? The chapters are a prime example of "applied epistemology" and promise to be a seminal contribution to an area of research that is rapidly gaining attention within epistemology and beyond.

Author : Christine Swanton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192606136

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Target Centred Virtue Ethics by Christine Swanton Pdf

Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was ground breaking, but has been subject to considerable critical attention. Christine Swanton shows that the time is ripe for new developments and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed by Swanton is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. First, it rejects the 'natural goodness' metaphysics of Neo Aristotelian virtue ethics owed to Philippa Foot in favour of a 'hermeneutic ontology' of ethics inspired by the Continental tradition and McDowell. Second, it rejects the well -known 'qualified agent' account of right action made famous by Hursthouse in favour of a target centred framework for assessing rightness of acts. Swanton develops the target centred view with discussions of Dancy's particularism, default reasons and thick concepts, codifiability, and its relation to the Doctrine of the mean. Target Centred Virtue Ethics retains the pluralism of Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View (2003) but develops it further in relation to a pluralistic account of practical reason. This study develops other substantive positions including the view that target centred virtue ethics is developmental, suitably embedded in an environmental ethics of "dwelling"; and incorporates a concept of differentiated virtue to allow for roles, narrativity, cultural and historical location, and stage of life.

Author : Seth Lobis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300210415

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The Virtue of Sympathy by Seth Lobis Pdf

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was increasingly understood to be a force of connection between people. By examining sympathy in literary and philosophical writing of the period, Lobis illuminates an extraordinary shift in human understanding.

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350129863

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Michael Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy by Yong Huang Pdf

Michael Slote is one of the most prominent philosophers working in the discipline today. By creating a two-way dialogue between philosophers specializing in Chinese philosophy and a central thinker from the Anglo-American tradition, this volume brings cross-cultural philosophy to life. From his early contributions in ethics, metaethics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology and epistemology to his recent investigations into the relationship between Western philosophy and Chinese philosophy, an international team of scholars of Chinese philosophy cover Slote's sentimentalism, his understanding of Chinese concepts Yin and Yang and explores the role Early Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism can play in his work. Each chapter extends Slote's ideas by considering them from a Chinese philosophical perspective and Slote is given the opportunity to respond to each of the contributors' interpretation of his work. Applied to Classical works such as the Zhuangzi and the Yijing, his ground-breaking thoughts on morality, care ethics and empathy are taken in new, exciting directions.

Author : Laura Frances Callahan,Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199672158

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Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue by Laura Frances Callahan,Timothy O'Connor Pdf

Is religious faith consistent with being an intellectually virtuous thinker? In this volume 14 original essays, written by a diverse and distinguished group of thinkers, offer new approaches to the central issues and controversies surrounding the place of intellectual virtue in religious faith.

Author : Audrey L. Anton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786602381

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The Bright and the Good by Audrey L. Anton Pdf

The Bright and the Good examines the connection between intellectual and moral virtues both through the history of philosophy and as it can be illustrated in comprehensive examinations of specific virtues. The first part of the book investigates the original assumptions posited by Ancient Western philosophers concerning the apparent connection between moral and intellectual virtues. The second part follows the assumptions through history from the Medieval and Modern periods of philosophy, noting how the assumption has been tweaked to accommodate specific ideological and scientific precepts. The third part showcases inquiries into specific virtues, taking the reader on an investigation unfettered by any specific time period or ideology so as to consider the apparent connection between the moral and the intellectual on a case-by-case basis. These essays relate both historical context and contemporary concerns and examine topics including vice, ignorance, hope, courage, patience, justice and mercy.

Author : Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (Great Britain). Conference
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X001431852

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Freedom of Speech by Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (Great Britain). Conference Pdf

Author : David Hume
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9791041940387

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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume Pdf

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is the enquiry subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU). Thus, it is often referred to as "the second Enquiry". It was originally published in 1751, three years after the first Enquiry. Hume first discusses ethics in A Treatise of Human Nature (in Book 3 - "Of Morals"). He later extracted and expounded upon the ideas he proposed there in his second Enquiry. In his short autobiographical work, My Own Life (1776), Hume states that his second Enquiry is "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best."

Author : Fonna Forman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000098204

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The Adam Smith Review by Fonna Forman Pdf

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate among scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape. This twelfth volume brings together leading scholars from across several disciplines and contributes to two particular themes. First, there is a focus on Adam Smith’s moral and political philosophy, exploring how Smith’s approach finds expression in both abstract philosophy and practical judgment. Second, there is a focus on epistemology, economics, and law, with innovative interpretations of Smithian theories.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197529171

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Epistemic Values by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

"This book collects 20 papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than 25 years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. The subject areas of most of epistemology are included in these papers: (1) knowledge and understanding, (2) intellectual virtue, (3) epistemic value, (4) virtue in religious epistemology, (5) intellectual autonomy and authority, and (6) skepticism and the Gettier problem"--

Author : Amy B. Shuffelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89097475388

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Solidarity and Justice in Children's Practice of Democratic Citizenship by Amy B. Shuffelton Pdf

Author : Annalisa Coliva,Sebastiano Moruzzi,Giorgio Volpe
Publisher : Quodlibet
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788874625604

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Discipline Filosofiche (2012-2) by Annalisa Coliva,Sebastiano Moruzzi,Giorgio Volpe Pdf