1st Edition
Practical Wisdom Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Introduction
Mario De Caro and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
1. The Reciprocity of the Virtues
Dan Russell
2. The Priority of Phronesis: How to Rescue Virtue Theory from Its Critics
Mario De Caro, Massimo Marraffa and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
3. Flirting with Skepticism about Practical Wisdom
Christian B. Miller
4. Phronesis and Whole Trait Theory: An Integration
Nancy E. Snow, Jennifer Cole Wright, and Michael T. Warren
5. Differentiating the Skills of Practical Wisdom
Matt Stichter
6. Practical Wisdom and Generalization: A theoretical and empirical investigation on the effects of limited information
Claudia Navarini, Allegra Indraccolo, and Riccardo Brunetti
7. The Developmental Science of Phronesis
Daniel Lapsley
8. Species-Typical Phronesis for a Living Planet
Darcia Narvaez
Biography
Mario De Caro is Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University and regularly a visiting professor at Tufts. He is Hilary Putnam’s literary executor and was a Fulbright fellow at Harvard. With David Macarthur, he edited Naturalism in Question (2004) and Naturalism and Normativity (2010) and is working at Liberal Naturalism .
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Genoa (Italy), and Secretary of Aretai – Center on Virtues, based at the same University. The journals where she has published lately are Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , Review of Philosophy and Psychology , International Journal of Philosophical Studies , and Journal of Value Inquiry .
"Practical wisdom is central to the virtue ethical tradition, but has been neglected in the debates over the psychology of ethical virtue and educational methods of fostering it. This volume should transform those debates by turning their attention away from behavioural outcomes and towards sound practical reasoning and judgment." – Jonathan Webber, Cardiff University, UK
"De Caro and Vaccarezza have put together a nice collection of interesting essays, each of which adroitly integrates perspectives from both psychology and philosophy on a variety of topics integral to the study of practical wisdom. This volume should be on the "wish list" of any scholars working on practical wisdom and moral psychology." – Audrey L. Anton, Western Kentucky University, USA
