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Vices of the Mind

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Politics & Current Events
Unabridged   7.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 04/19/2019

Vices of the Mind

From the Intellectual to the Political

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684570324
Digital Download ISBN:9781684570331

Summary

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice.

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Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical research, Vices of the Mind uses real examples drawn primarily from the world of politics to develop a compelling theory of epistemic vice. Cassam defends the view that as well as getting in the way of knowledge these vices are blameworthy or reprehensible. Key events such as the 2003 Iraq War and the 2016 Brexit vote, and notable figures including Donald Trump are analysed in detail to illustrate what epistemic vice looks like in the modern world. The traits covered in this landmark work include a hitherto unrecognized epistemic vice called "epistemic insouciance." Cassam examines both the extent to which we are responsible for our failings and the factors that make it difficult to know our own vices.

Author Bio

Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Self and World, The Possibility of Knowledge, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? with John Campbell, and Self-Knowledge for Humans.