The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives

Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 October 2018
Pages
206
ISBN
9781108472371

The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives

Matt Stichter (Washington State University)

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.

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