Introduction -- Intellectual virtues -- Knowledge and intellectual virtue -- Virtue and character in reliabilism -- Evidentialism, vice, and virtue -- A personal worth conception of intellectual virtue -- The personal worth conception and its rivals -- Open-mindedness -- Intellectual courage -- The status and future of character-based virtue epistemology -- Appendix: On the distinction between intellectual and moral virtues
Summary
Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology - an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index