Titlebook: Curiosity as an Epistemic Virtue; Nenad Miščević Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spr

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Self-inquisitiveness: The Structure and Role of an Epistemic Virtue “self-inquisitiveness” rather than “curiosity about oneself”, since the latter sounds like bad English, and “curiosity about oneself” is quite a mouthful. And I shall simply stipulate here that the two are synonymous.

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Book 2020ll as research on the nature and motivation of scientific inquiry, Miščević identifies curiosity as a positive and vital character trait. Key topics covered include:. .·       Curiosity as a subject in the history of philosophy..·       Curiosity as a possible ethical virtue..·       The importance

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Introductionmpletely synonymous, names. Curiosity is thus an old topic in classical philosophy; however, it is a new area of research in contemporary epistemology. It had almost disappeared from the twentieth-century philosophical scene, in particular from analytic debates, which have concentrated on the defini

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History: How It All Started of the beginnings of philosophical discussion of curiosity, ending with a brief note on the apotheosis of curiosity in early modern philosophy. Our main interest will be in how philosophy of curiosity or “love of knowledge” started, and in particular, how different evaluations of curiosity started,

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Nature and Kinds of Curiositye first task, favored in particular by Hellenistic authors, has been the inquiry into the nature of curiosity through inquiry into its various kinds. This topic will be central for the present chapter. Second, we have seen in the preceding chapter that one central issue addressed throughout the hist

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Is Curiosity a Virtue?is again the fashionable topic of the day, both in ethics and in epistemology. In this book I am joining the fashion and treating curiosity as a virtue; in fact, I am calling my proposal . motivating virtue account,

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The Motivating Virtue Account, here is the preview. The next section briefly discusses Baehr’s proposal to characterize epistemic virtues, in order to fully prepare the ground for our central thesis. Section 3 proposes a kind of Master Argument for the centrality of curiosity, concentrating on our cognitive abilities and the wa

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Defending the Motivating Virtue Accountg, is virtuous, and then addressed two kinds of doubts. We concluded by reaffirming the impression: the doubts are exaggerated, curiosity behaves like other, well-established virtues and we may count it as one. In Chap. . we developed an even more curiosity-friendly approach, our motivating virtue a

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Cognitive Psychology of Curiosityadition of appraisal theories, which propose that it is the appraisal of situations that causes or arouses curiosity in people: if I appraise the appearance in the corridor of philosophy department of a gentlemen that I don’t know as something new to me, it will arouse my curiosity: who is this new