The Skillfulness of Virtue : Improving Our Moral and Epistemic Lives

"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."--Page 4 de la couverture "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"-- Provided by publisher 10.0000@www.cambridge.org@7566DDC5ACA47F848C0E6E18E8748296 10.0000@www.cambridge.org@08575C2AE4B700417143A63DB2C42FBB 10.0000@www.cambridge.org@3FEE64F18939493C46774E31BCC9A80F 10.1017@9781108691970.001 10.1017@9781108691970.002 10.1017@9781108691970.003 10.1017@9781108691970.004 10.1017@9781108691970.005 10.1017@9781108691970.006 Chapter 5 The Situationist Critique of Virtue Situationism and the Skill Model of Virtue Meeting the Situationist Challenge Moral Disengagement and the Situationist Challenge Situationism and the Skill Model of Epistemic Virtue The Rarity of Virtue Revisited Conclusion 10.1017@9781108691970.007 Proposes That Virtues Are Skills That We Can Work On Improving, Using Psychological Research On Self-regulation And Expertise.