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The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving Our Moral and Epistemic Lives

by Matt Stichter (washington State University)

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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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.

  • Author

    Matt Stichter (washington State University)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2021

  • Weight

    287g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108459389

  • ISBN-10

    1108459382

  • Eden Code

    5531211

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