Measuring Virtuous Responses to Peer Disagreement
The Intellectual Humility and Actively Open-Minded Thinking of Conciliationists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Beebe (0000-0001-8282-4297), Jonathan Matheson (0000-0003-3863-5119) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 426-449 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2022.8 |
| OpenAlex | W4285726490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
Some philosophers working on the epistemology of disagreement claim that conciliationist responses to peer disagreement embody a kind of intellectual humility. Others contend that standing firm or ‘sticking to one's guns’ in the face of peer disagreement may stem from an admirable kind of courage or internal fortitude. In this paper, we report the results of two empirical studies that examine the relationship between conciliationist and steadfast responses to peer disagreement, on the one hand, and virtues such as intellectual humility, courage, grit, and actively open-minded thinking, on the other. We observed positive correlations between measures of conciliationism, intellectual humility, and actively open-minded thinking but failed to find any reliable association between steadfastness, courage, and grit. Our studies reveal that there are at least two important intellectual virtues associated with conciliationist responses to peer disagreement (viz., intellectual humility and actively open-minded thinking) and two vices associated with steadfast responses (intellectual arrogance and myside bias). These findings shed new light on the overall epistemic goodness of the conciliationist perspective
Courage · Epistemology · Humility · Moral courage · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Intelligent Virtue
Character as Moral Fiction
Normative Externalism
Not Just a Truthometer
Cognitive and Interpersonal Features of Intellectual Humility
The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale
The role of actively open-minded thinking in information acquisition, accuracy, and calibration
Reasoning independently of prior belief and individual differences in actively open-minded thinking.
Rationality’s Fixed Point (or
Reasonable Religious Disagreements
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
When to defer to majority testimony - and when not
Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability
Intellectual humility and the epistemology of disagreement
Epistemology of Disagreement
Higher‐Order Evidence 1
Intellectual Humility as Attitude
Higher‐Order Evidence and the Limits of Defeat
Grit
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |