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<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>1 Introduction: Virtue and Vice 1<br /><i>HEATHER BATTALY</i></p> <p><b>Part 1: The Structure of Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology</b></p> <p>2 Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 21<br /><i>ROGER CRISP</i></p> <p>3 Exemplarist Virtue Theory 39<br /><i>LINDA ZAGZEBSKI</i></p> <p>4 Right Act, Virtuous Motive 57<br /><i>THOMAS HURKA</i></p> <p><b>Part 2: Virtue and Context</b></p> <p>5 Agency Ascriptions in Ethics and Epistemology: Or, Navigating Intersections, Narrow and Broad 73<br /><i>GUY AXTELL</i></p> <p>6 Virtues, Social Roles, and Contextualism 95<br /><b>SARAH WRIGHT</b></p> <p><b>Part 3: Virtue and Emotion</b></p> <p>7 Virtue, Emotion, and Attention 115<br /><i>MICHAEL S. BRADY</i></p> <p>8 Feeling Without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue-Acquisition 133<br /><i>AMY COPLAN</i></p> <p><b>Part 4: Virtues and Vices</b></p> <p>9 A Challenge to Intellectual Virtue from Moral Virtue: The Case of Universal Love 153<br /><i>CHRISTINE SWANTON</i></p> <p>10 Open-Mindedness 173<br /><i>WAYNE RIGGS</i></p> <p>11 Epistemic Malevolence 189<br /><i>JASON BAEHR</i></p> <p>12 Epistemic Self-Indulgence 215<br /><i>HEATHER BATTALY</i></p> <p>Index 237</p>

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<b>Heather Battaly</b> 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 <i>Philosophical Papers</i>, <i>Philosophy Compass</i>, and <i>Teaching Philosophy;</i> and is co-editor of <i>Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston</i>. She is currently writing a book on the moral and intellectual virtues.

Virtues and vices matter in both ethics and epistemology - it <i>matters</i> whether an agent has moral and intellectual virtues or moral and intellectual vices. In fact, this is the veritable rallying cry of both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. But do analogies between virtues and vices across these two philosophical fields even succeed? If so, how much do virtues and vices really matter? Are they - or are exemplars - at the foundation of moral and epistemic theory? And if virtues and vices <i>do</i> matter, what exactly are they? <p><i>Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic</i> presents a series of thought provoking essays that delve deeply into the role of virtue and vice that cut across the fields of ethics and epistemology. Featuring the voices of both virtue ethicists and epistemologists, readings offer competing accounts of the foundation of moral theory while exploring the connections between virtue and emotion, and virtue and contextualism. Other essays analyze universal love, open-mindedness, epistemic malevolence, and epistemic self-indulgence. Written by leading or upcoming figures in ethics and epistemology this book offers provocative insights into the most cutting edge thinking concerning the application of the intellect into virtue theory - an important development in the contemporary analytic tradition.</p>

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