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Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives

Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives

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This book is for those interested in virtues and moral development. It provides an account of virtues as skills that we can work on improving, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. The book will be of special interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology and virtue education.

The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation and skill acquisition, which he then uses as grounds to discuss virtue development as a process of skill acquisition. This account of virtue as skill has important implications for debates about virtue in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Furthermore, it engages seriously with criticisms of virtue theory that arise in moral psychology, as psychological experiments reveal that there are many obstacles to acting and thinking well, even for those with the best of intentions. Stichter draws on self-regulation strategies and examples of deliberate practice in skill acquisition to show how we can overcome some of these obstacles, and become more skillful in our moral and epistemic virtues.

Weight: 310g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108459389

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