Intellectual humility : an introduction to the philosophy and science / [print]
Ian M. Church and Peter L. Samuelson.
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1 -- Theory; Chapter 1 What is intellectual humility? (and why should we care?) ; 1: Problems with the current, seminal accounts of intellectual humility ; 2: Folk theories of intellectual humility ; 3: The doxastic account of intellectual humility ; 4: Addressing some objections ; 5: Book outline ; Chapter 2 What is an intellectual virtue? ; 1: Virtue epistemology in general ; 2: Ernest Sosa ' s agent-reliabilism 3: Linda Zagzebski ' s agent-responsibilism 4: Alvin Plantinga ' s proper functionalist agent-reliabilism ; 5: Is intellectual humility an intellectual virtue? ; Conclusion ; Part 2 -- Science ; Chapter 3 How do we know who is intellectually humble? ; 1: The problems and promise of measurement ; 2: Issues of scientific measurement ; 3: Existing measures of intellectual humility ; 4: Measuring intellectual humility in context ; Chapter 4 How do we become intellectually humble? 1: Nature versus nurture 2: Learning and knowledge acquisition in children ; 3: Epistemic trust and the development of intellectual humility ; 4: Mindsets and the development of intellectual humility ; Conclusion ; Chapter 5 What can human cognition tell us about intellectual humility? 1 ; 1: Virtue epistemology revisited ; 2: Reliabilism: Heuristics and biases ; 3: Responsibilism: Motivation, goals, and values in cognition ; 4: Heuristics and biases as intellectual arrogance 5: Avoiding and mitigating biases with intellectual humility Conclusion ; Chapter 6 Are some people born humble? ; 1: Intellectual humility as a character trait ; 2: Situational determinants of intellectual humility ; 3: Both trait and situation in intellectual humility ; Conclusion ; Chapter 7 How do emotions affect our ability to be intellectually humble? ; 1: Theories of emotion and cognition ; 2: Emotional regulation ; 3: Emotion and cognition in the face of disagreement 4: Emotional style and intellectual humility Conclusion ; Part 3 -- Application ; Chapter 8 Can you believe what you hear? ; 1: The anatomy of testimony ; 2: Intellectual humility and how testimony can go wrong ; 3: Is testimonial knowledge epistemically distinct? ; Chapter 9 How should we handle disagreement? ; 1: Easy cases of disagreement and intellectual humility ; 2: Problematic disagreement ; 3: An intellectually humble response to intractable disagreement
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Humility. Thought and thinking. Intellectual life.