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HOPE FOR INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2017

Aaron D. Cobb
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Abstract

Robert Roberts and W. Jay Wood (2007) define intellectual humility as a dispositional absence of concern for self-importance. And they contrast this virtue with distinct species of vicious pride. The aim of this project is to extend their regulative epistemology by considering how epistemic agents can cultivate a dispositional detachment from the concerns characteristic of the prideful vices of hyper-autonomy and presumption. I contend that virtuous communities help to foster intellectual humility through their role in cultivating the virtue of hope. Thus, regulative epistemology ought to focus greater attention on the role of communities in the development of intellectual virtue.

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Episteme , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 56 - 72
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