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Full Idea
Virtue theorists may focus on the particular habits or virtues of successful cognizers, such as love of knowledge, firmness, courage and caution, humility, autonomy, generosity, and practical wisdom.
Gist of Idea
Epistemic virtues: love of knowledge, courage, caution, autonomy, practical wisdom...
Source
Jonathan Kvanvig (Virtue Epistemology [2011], III)
Book Ref
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.202
A Reaction
[He cites Roberts and Wood 2007] It is interesting that most of these virtues do not merely concern cognition. How about diligence, self-criticism, flexibility...?
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