Beschrijving

This is the first book devoted to the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person. By directing attention to the ideal of intellectual dependability, the book marks a novel turn of scholarly interest toward a neglected dimension of the ideal inquirer that will inform epistemological theorizing and educational practice.

Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers can depend in their pursuit of epistemic goods. While neglected in recent scholarship, this question is an important one for both epistemology—how we should conceptualize the ideal inquirer—and education—how we can enable developing learners to grow toward this ideal.

The book defends a virtue theory according to which being an intellectually dependable person is distinctively a matter of possessing a suite of neglected virtues called \