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Integrity and the Virtues of Reason: Leading a Convincing Life
Greg Scherkoske
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hardcover. Scherkoske situates integrity as an epistemic virtue and moves the debate surrounding impartial moral theories in important new directions. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Many people have claimed that integrity requires sticking to one's convictions come what may. Greg Scherkoske challenges this claim, arguing that it creates problems in distinguishing integrity from fanaticism, close-mindedness or mere inertia. Rather, integrity requires sticking to one's convictions to the extent that they are justifiable and likely to be correct. In contrast to traditional views of integrity, Scherkoske contends that it is an epistemic virtue intimately connected to what we know and have reason to believe, rather than an essentially moral virtue connected to our values. He situates integrity in the context of shared cognitive and practical agency ... Read more
Many people have claimed that integrity requires sticking to one's convictions come what may. Greg Scherkoske challenges this claim, arguing that it creates problems in distinguishing integrity from fanaticism, close-mindedness or mere inertia. Rather, integrity requires sticking to one's convictions to the extent that they are justifiable and likely to be correct. In contrast to traditional views of integrity, Scherkoske contends that it is an epistemic virtue intimately connected to what we know and have reason to believe, rather than an essentially moral virtue connected to our values. He situates integrity in the context of shared cognitive and practical agency ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107000674
SKU
V9781107000674
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About Greg Scherkoske
Greg Scherkoske is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the editor of Engaging Moral Theory (forthcoming).
Reviews for Integrity and the Virtues of Reason: Leading a Convincing Life
'… contributes significantly to the literature on integrity, with novel, well-argued proposals and extremely clear organization …' S. E. Forschler, Choice 'Scherkoske's book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on integrity … It will reward close reading by those interested not only in integrity itself, but also in virtue theory more generally, the epistemology of disagreement, the epistemology of ... Read more