Skilful reflection as an epistemic virtue

• Main Authors: MI, Chienkuo, RYAN, Shane
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Skilful reflection; master virtue; epistemic virtues; intellectual virtues; Confucian philosophy; reflection; epistemic virtue; Dual Process Hypothesis; Type 1 cognitive processes; Type 2 cognitive processes; downstream reflection; metacognition; current debate in epistemology; Epistemology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3693; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4951/viewcontent/Skilful_Reflection_As_An_Epistemic_Virtu.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper advances the claim that skilful reflection is a master virtue in that skilful reflection shapes and corrects the other epistemic and intellectual virtues. We make the case that skilful reflection does this with both competence-based epistemic virtues and character-based intellectual virtu...