1st Edition
Intellectual Dependability A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal
By T. Ryan Byerly
Copyright 2021
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers can depend in their pursuit of epistemic goods. While neglected in recent scholarship, this question is an important one for both epistemology—how we should conceptualize the ideal inquirer—and... Read more
Introduction 1
PART I
1 The Intellectually Dependable Person 9
2 The Virtues of Intellectual Dependability 34
3 Educating for Intellectual Dependability 56
PART II
4 Intellectual Benevolence 83
5 Intellectual Transparency 105
6 Communicative Clarity 125
7 Audience Sensitivity 143
8 Epistemic Guidance 163
9 Being Intellectually Dependable for Groups 179
Biography
T. Ryan Byerly is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield. He is author or editor of several books, including Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness (Routledge, 2019).
