Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic

Heather Battaly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University Fullerton. Her primary areas of research are epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory. She has published articles on the intellectual virtues in Philosophical Papers, Philosophy Compass, and Teaching Philosophy; and is co-editor of Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. She is currently writing a book on the moral and intellectual virtues.

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• Notes on Contributors vii1 Introduction: Virtue and Vice 1Heather BattalyPart 1: The Structure of Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology2 Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 21Roger Crisp3 Exemplarist Virtue Theory 39Linda Zagzebski4 Right Act, Virtuous Motive 57Thomas HurkaPart 2: Virtue and Context5 Agency Ascriptions in Ethics and Epistemology: Or, Navigating Intersections, Narrow and Broad 73Guy Axtell6 Virtues, Social Roles, and Contextualism 95Sarah WrightPart 3: Virtue and Emotion7 Virtue, Emotion, and Attention 115Michael S. Brady8 Feeling Without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue-Acquisition 133Amy CoplanPart 4: Virtues and Vices9 A Challenge to Intellectual Virtue from Moral Virtue: The Case of Universal Love 153Christine Swanton10 Open-Mindedness 173Wayne Riggs11 Epistemic Malevolence 189Jason Baehr12 Epistemic Self-Indulgence 215Heather Battaly Index 237