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How might intellectual humility lead to scientific insight?

Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:10
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Reblogged from Climate Etc.:

by Judith Curry

Philosophers known as “virtue epistemologists” claim that the goods of the intellectual life—knowledge, wisdom, understanding, etc.—are more easily obtained by persons possessing mature traits of intellectual character, such as open-mindedness, teachability, and intellectual courage, than by persons who lack these virtues or who are marked by their opposing vices.  - Jay Wood

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Great post from Judith Curry at Climate Etc


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