1st Edition
Virtue’s Reasons New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons
Introduction: Virtue’s Reasons
Noell Birondo and S. Stewart Braun
Part I: Reasons, Character, and Agency
1. Moral Virtues and Responsiveness for Reasons
Garrett Cullity
2. Remote Scenarios and Warranted Virtue Attributions
Justin Oakley
3. Vice, Reason, and Wrongdoing
Damian Cox
4. Can Virtue Be Codified? An Inquiry on the Basis of Four Conceptions of Virtue
Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
Part II: Reasons and Virtues in Development
5. Virtue, Reason, and Will
Ramon Das
6. Self-Knowledge and the Development of Virtue
Emer O’Hagan
7. Aretaic Role Modeling, Justificatory Reasons, and the Diversity of the Virtues
Robert Audi
Part III: Specific Virtues for Finite Rational Agents
8. Practical Wisdom: A Virtue for Resolving Conflicts among Practical Reasons
Andrés Luco
9. The Virtue of Modesty and the Egalitarian Ethos
S. Stewart Braun
10. Virtue and Prejudice: Giving and Taking Reasons
Noell Birondo
Biography
Noell Birondo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University, USA. His primary interests lie at the intersection of contemporary ethical theory and ancient Greek philosophy. His articles have appeared in The Monist, Ancient Philosophy, Ratio, the Journal of Philosophical Research, the Southwest Philosophy Review, and the International Encyclopedia of Ethics.
S. Stewart Braun is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and a member of the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He specializes in social and political philosophy and also in normative and applied ethics. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy and Law and Philosophy, among others.
"The chapters in this volume tend to be of a very high quality—and some are truly excellent, with the potential to shape future discussion in the area . . . Overall, this is a strong collection of insightful and often thought-provoking papers . . . Understood as a wide-ranging contribution to the leading-edge literature on virtue theory and character, the volume stands up very well." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"This interesting collection is packed with creative and interesting papers that promise to open up new debates about the connections between virtue, reason, and moral development." – Bradford Cokelet, University of Miami
