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Thomas A. Stapleford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science.
Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2016Co-Authors: Daniel J. Hicks, Thomas A. StaplefordAbstract:“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the Virtue Ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including allegations about the corruption of science by wealth or power, consideration of scientific ethics or “moral economies,” the role of values in science, the ethical distinctiveness (or not) of scientific vocations, and the relationship between history of science and the practice of science itself.
Daniel J. Hicks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science.
Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2016Co-Authors: Daniel J. Hicks, Thomas A. StaplefordAbstract:“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the Virtue Ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including allegations about the corruption of science by wealth or power, consideration of scientific ethics or “moral economies,” the role of values in science, the ethical distinctiveness (or not) of scientific vocations, and the relationship between history of science and the practice of science itself.
Christine Swanton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche - Can Nietzsche Be Both a Virtue Ethicist and an Existentialist
The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche, 2015Co-Authors: Christine SwantonAbstract:This chapter elaborates the psychology of Nietzsche's motif of escape from self with the help of the views of Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, and Karen Horney. It summarizes the root cause of failure of self-love on this Nietzschean psychology. The chapter alsThis chapter elaborates the psychology of Nietzsche's motif of escape from self with the help of the views of Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, and Karen Horney. It summarizes the root cause of failure of self-love on this Nietzschean psychology. The chapter also focuses on four major types of distortion, which provide the main themes of the Genealogy of Morals. These are the perversion of cruelty, the neurosis of cruel punitivism, the neurosis of resentment, and the resignatory neurosis of the ascetic ideal. In all four areas, Virtue can be understood as having at its core self-affirmation or self-love, and vice self-hate and escape from self. That is, at a depth psychological level, Virtue can be seen as expressive of a self-loving attitude and vice the reverse. The existentialist motif of escape from self has in Nietzsche's hands been transformed into a characterological psychology at home in Virtue ethics. [Taken from Publisher's Website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
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can nietzsche be both a Virtue Ethicist and an existentialist
2015Co-Authors: Christine SwantonAbstract:This chapter elaborates the psychology of Nietzsche's motif of escape from self with the help of the views of Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, and Karen Horney. It summarizes the root cause of failure of self-love on this Nietzschean psychology. The chapter alsThis chapter elaborates the psychology of Nietzsche's motif of escape from self with the help of the views of Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, and Karen Horney. It summarizes the root cause of failure of self-love on this Nietzschean psychology. The chapter also focuses on four major types of distortion, which provide the main themes of the Genealogy of Morals. These are the perversion of cruelty, the neurosis of cruel punitivism, the neurosis of resentment, and the resignatory neurosis of the ascetic ideal. In all four areas, Virtue can be understood as having at its core self-affirmation or self-love, and vice self-hate and escape from self. That is, at a depth psychological level, Virtue can be seen as expressive of a self-loving attitude and vice the reverse. The existentialist motif of escape from self has in Nietzsche's hands been transformed into a characterological psychology at home in Virtue ethics. [Taken from Publisher's Website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
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Can Hume Be Read as a Virtue Ethicist
Hume Studies, 2007Co-Authors: Christine SwantonAbstract:It is not unusual now for Hume to be read as part of a Virtue ethical tradition. However there are a number of obstacles in the way of such a reading: subjectivist, irrationalist, hedonistic, and consequentialist interpretations of Hume. In this paper I support a Virtue ethical reading by arguing against all these interpretations. In the course of these arguments I show how Hume should be understood as part of a Virtue ethical tradition which is sentimentalist in a response-dependent sense, as opposed to Aristotelian.
Simon James - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Suffering and the primacy of Virtue.
Analysis, 2019Co-Authors: Simon JamesAbstract:Some people claim that some instances of suffering are intrinsically bad in an impersonal way. If it were true, that claim might seem to count against Virtue ethics and for consequentialism. Drawing on the works of Jason Kawall, Christine Swanton and Nietzsche, I consider some reasons for thinking that it is, however, false. I argue, moreover, that even if it were true, a Virtue Ethicist could consistently acknowledge its truth.
Stapleford, Thomas A. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science
2016Co-Authors: Hicks, Daniel J., Stapleford, Thomas A.Abstract:“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and especially on its potential connections with ethics. In this essay, we draw on the work of the Virtue Ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including allegations about the corruption of science by wealth or power; consideration of scientific ethics or “moral economies”; the role of values in science; the ethical distinctiveness (or not) of scientific vocations; and the relationship between history of science and the practice of science itself
