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ERIC Number: EJ959729
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Mar
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1477-8785
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Open-Mindedness and Intellectual Humility
Spiegel, James S.
Theory and Research in Education, v10 n1 p27-38 Mar 2012
Among those who regard open-mindedness as a virtue, there is dispute over whether the trait is essentially an attitude toward particular beliefs or toward oneself as a believer. I defend William Hare's account of open-mindedness as a first-order attitude toward one's beliefs and critique Peter Gardner's view of open-mindedness as a non-commital posture and Jonathan Adler's claim that open-mindedness is a second-order recognition of one's fallibility as a knower. While I reject Adler's account of open-mindedness as a meta-attitude, I affirm his intuition that there is a closely related second-order intellectual virtue pertaining to the attitude we take toward ourselves as knowers. However, this trait is intellectual humility not open-mindedness. I explain why both of these traits are intellectual virtues and how they properly build off one another in the virtuous mind. (Contains 4 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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