Becoming Intellectually Virtuous Wood, W. Jay creator text xx Leicester, UK Apollos 1998 9999 monographic und eng

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216 p. ; 21 cm. The nature of epistemology -- When do epistemological questions arise? -- Epistemology and the pursuit of intellectual virtues -- The Christian and intellectual virtues -- Doing epistemology as if virtue mattered -- Is everyone called to pursue the intellectual virtues? -- Exploring the intellectual virtues -- Types of intellectual virtue -- The structure of intellectual virtues -- Epistemology, virtue, and responsibility -- An extended look at some intellectual virtues -- Studiousness and vicious curiousity -- Intellectual honesty and dishonesty -- Wisdom and folly -- The relationship between ancient and modern and contemporary -- Epistemological concerns -- Foundationalism -- The motivation for foundationalism -- The rudiments of foundationalism -- Strong foundationalism -- Problems with strong foundationalism -- Modest foundationalism -- Epistemic justification -- Evidentialism -- Coherentism -- Keith Lehrer's coherence theory -- Reliabilism -- Objections to reliabilism -- Virtue epistemology and the internalism-externalism debate -- Epistemology and religious belief -- Internalism and the justification of theism -- Externalism and the justification of theism -- Reformed epistemology -- The role of emotions & virtues in proper cognitive functioning -- How emotions assist good thinking -- Emotions, intellectual virtues and religious belief -- Transformative emotional experiences. W. Jay Wood Christianity -- Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) BT50 .W57 1998 97808511119570851111955 240419